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A review by dnemec
Misfits by Hunter Shea
4.0
After a teenage girl is raped, her friends decide on their own justice for the middle-aged rapist. They drag him out to Dracula Drive where the Melon Heads live. The Melon Heads have long been an urban legend told to the kids of town - a band of mutants that feast on anything and anyone that crosses their path. But Mick and Marnie know the truth. They know there is a man who lives in a cabin in the woods who helps out the Melon Heads, and who can help the teens get swift justice. Unfortunately, the kids disobey the rules and accidentally kill one of the Melon Heads. Now the band of feral mutants are out to get them - and no one close to them is safe.
Count on Hunter Shea to make that seemingly deserted area of suburbia suddenly terrifying. I love a good urban legend, and this is one. The Melon Heads are society's cast offs - years ago, children born deformed were taken out to the woods and left. Only instead of them dying, they lived and multiplied. Staying to they part of the woods, only kids dared to venture close as part of a dare. But the legends are real and don't piss off the Melon Heads - they are stealthy and savage.
This has to be one of the more brutal Shea books I've read starting off with a vicious rape and following it up later with some nasty death scenes. Not quite one of his creature features - I mean the Melon Heads are human, kind of - but every bit as entertaining as them.
Count on Hunter Shea to make that seemingly deserted area of suburbia suddenly terrifying. I love a good urban legend, and this is one. The Melon Heads are society's cast offs - years ago, children born deformed were taken out to the woods and left. Only instead of them dying, they lived and multiplied. Staying to they part of the woods, only kids dared to venture close as part of a dare. But the legends are real and don't piss off the Melon Heads - they are stealthy and savage.
This has to be one of the more brutal Shea books I've read starting off with a vicious rape and following it up later with some nasty death scenes. Not quite one of his creature features - I mean the Melon Heads are human, kind of - but every bit as entertaining as them.