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Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley
4.5

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing an early copy in exchange for an honest review.

You know when you're watching a horror movie, particularly a slasher, and you're screaming at the main character during a tense moment for doing something dumb but at the same time you can't take your eyes away from the screen? That's this book. It captures the feeling of a slasher so much better than most other slasher books out there, and I literally could not put it down.  I feel as though horror/slasher books tend to stray away from that since we're more in their heads than we are in movies, so when I get the movie feel from a book it really means something to me. After reading the author's note I can really see all the influences and passion behind this as well.