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Daphne
by Josh Malerman
This was an audiobook regret. Learn from me -- READ IN PRINT!!!
Every town has a legend -- some local lore where the authenticity is questionable but the creepiness is maximum. Samhattan's legend is Daphne, a towering, metal-listening, muscle car-driving, child abductor killed by the locals years ago. The rumor is she comes back when you think about her which seems impossible to do now since she seems to be killing the members of the girls basketball team. Is Daphne actually real? And how to you stop something that is already dead?
Since major parts of this book was told through a teenager's journal and the plot was to not think of Daphne, there were several redundant segments of the main character testing/saying/writing the same thoughts over and over. In a print book, you can breeze past this but in audio, it was painfully distracting and slowed the story down a lot. I think had I read this in print, it would have been a 4-4.5 star rating. Lots of creepy imagery. A cool twist on a familiar concept. Would recommend.
Every town has a legend -- some local lore where the authenticity is questionable but the creepiness is maximum. Samhattan's legend is Daphne, a towering, metal-listening, muscle car-driving, child abductor killed by the locals years ago. The rumor is she comes back when you think about her which seems impossible to do now since she seems to be killing the members of the girls basketball team. Is Daphne actually real? And how to you stop something that is already dead?
Since major parts of this book was told through a teenager's journal and the plot was to not think of Daphne, there were several redundant segments of the main character testing/saying/writing the same thoughts over and over. In a print book, you can breeze past this but in audio, it was painfully distracting and slowed the story down a lot. I think had I read this in print, it would have been a 4-4.5 star rating. Lots of creepy imagery. A cool twist on a familiar concept. Would recommend.