A review by mattbeevs
Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones

5.0

I loved Don’t Fear the Reaper so much more than My Heart is a Chainsaw. While the first book was a little hard to follow and felt really slow until the last 50 pages where it went 0-100, this one hit the ground running and stayed moving throughout. This book captures the horror movie/slasher movie atmosphere with so many great scenes and setups and Dark Mill South definitely feels like he holds his own with the classic slasher villains. Like the first book, there was still the occasional part where I would have to reread sections to understand what was happening but it didn’t ruin things for me and felt pretty spaced out. I did find the ending a little confusing but the build up and final confrontations were so great that it didn’t bother me. I really didn’t think a slasher story could feel like anything other then a straight forward popcorn flick but this series is proving that notion wrong. Looking forward to the next one.