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A review by toffee_coffee
Freaks by Nik Perring, Caroline Smailes, Darren Craske
4.0
Originally posted on www.ashleyroberts5693.wordpress.com
I received this book as part of a giveaway that Caroline Smailes carried out on her Instagram during May. The prizes were great – a couple of books and a few other bits and pieces! However, at the time that the books arrived I wasn’t reading too much; I decided to pick up Freaks to try and pull me out of my ‘reading slump’ – it didn’t exactly work, but I did manage to read this book in just one night.
The book was only short, but it did manage to keep me intrigued and made me want to keep reading. With every new short story there was a new dark twist on the usual happy light of superpowers and superheroes. I thought this was an interesting change to the usual stories that are written, which may have been part of what kept me interested. However, there was also a bit of humour (though, still, on occasion the darkness appeared again) within the book. Due to this, the book was able to keep throwing different emotions at me.
In addition, this book further showed the dark side of Caroline Smailes’ writing – I can’t speak for Nik Perring though, having never read anything else of his. But, during another of Smailes’ books, The Drowning of Arthur Braxton, you can definitely see the darker and slightly twisted ideas that Smailes has.
I received this book as part of a giveaway that Caroline Smailes carried out on her Instagram during May. The prizes were great – a couple of books and a few other bits and pieces! However, at the time that the books arrived I wasn’t reading too much; I decided to pick up Freaks to try and pull me out of my ‘reading slump’ – it didn’t exactly work, but I did manage to read this book in just one night.
The book was only short, but it did manage to keep me intrigued and made me want to keep reading. With every new short story there was a new dark twist on the usual happy light of superpowers and superheroes. I thought this was an interesting change to the usual stories that are written, which may have been part of what kept me interested. However, there was also a bit of humour (though, still, on occasion the darkness appeared again) within the book. Due to this, the book was able to keep throwing different emotions at me.
In addition, this book further showed the dark side of Caroline Smailes’ writing – I can’t speak for Nik Perring though, having never read anything else of his. But, during another of Smailes’ books, The Drowning of Arthur Braxton, you can definitely see the darker and slightly twisted ideas that Smailes has.