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The Lost
by Jack Ketchum
Loved this book.
Jack Ketchum has a very straightforward style of writing that is so easy to pick up and fall into. The story itself is simple and can be summarized easily. The events of the story are interesting and pull you along but it is the characters that hook you and keep you engaged. There is a rather large cast of characters in the small book and each feels interesting and important. Ray, your villain, has the most chapters and Ketchum took the approach of making him sympathetic at times. He is not a movie villain, he feels real, he could be a guy you knew, someone you maybe even liked until you made the mistake of spending a little too much time around him and then saw what he was really like. At times I found myself actually rooting for him and then had to catch myself and remember that he opened the story by murdering two people. Even though Ray is the focal point of the story he is not the only interesting character, they are all interesting, Schilling the cop obsessed with catching Ray for that murder, Tim and Jennifer, Ray's "friends" who slowly begin to pull away from Ray, Katherine the new girl who is infatuated with Ray's bad boy attitude but only up to a point. All these characters and even a few more are compelling and interesting, there is even a damn cat who has his own chapters and they are great. I loved every page of this book, even reading it with that sense of dread you have to read all Jack Ketchum books with. Ketchum only writes tragedies it seems and you know as you are falling in love with all these flawed and interesting characters that some of them won't make it to the end, but that too is part of the fun.
I can't say it enough, if you like dark stories, read this book.
Jack Ketchum has a very straightforward style of writing that is so easy to pick up and fall into. The story itself is simple and can be summarized easily. The events of the story are interesting and pull you along but it is the characters that hook you and keep you engaged. There is a rather large cast of characters in the small book and each feels interesting and important. Ray, your villain, has the most chapters and Ketchum took the approach of making him sympathetic at times. He is not a movie villain, he feels real, he could be a guy you knew, someone you maybe even liked until you made the mistake of spending a little too much time around him and then saw what he was really like. At times I found myself actually rooting for him and then had to catch myself and remember that he opened the story by murdering two people. Even though Ray is the focal point of the story he is not the only interesting character, they are all interesting, Schilling the cop obsessed with catching Ray for that murder, Tim and Jennifer, Ray's "friends" who slowly begin to pull away from Ray, Katherine the new girl who is infatuated with Ray's bad boy attitude but only up to a point. All these characters and even a few more are compelling and interesting, there is even a damn cat who has his own chapters and they are great. I loved every page of this book, even reading it with that sense of dread you have to read all Jack Ketchum books with. Ketchum only writes tragedies it seems and you know as you are falling in love with all these flawed and interesting characters that some of them won't make it to the end, but that too is part of the fun.
I can't say it enough, if you like dark stories, read this book.