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patricknight 's review for:
Black Mouth
by Ronald Malfi
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi
Quotes: "Events in our lives often have meaning because we choose to give them meaning. Whatever the case, it arrived in the way sometimes monsters do. As a creature in need."
"We can not run from ourselves. There is a history that travels through our blood. A blueprint for the people we are to become."
"Because friendship, too, is a certain kind of magic."
"I had to rely only on the cold, callous brutality of mankind. Fortunately, there is so much of it. Even in children."
Review: In the late 90s, four children, brothers Jamie and Dennis, & friends, Clay and Mia, met a mysterious man who called himself the Magician. Wowing them with magic. He leads them to do something horrific in order to have "magic" like him.
Twenty years later, the group went their own ways. A shadow has been chasing them. Especially, Jamie. Who saw a glimpse of what the "Magician" truly looked like.
Mia sees the magician in a crowd at a carnival and brings the group back together to find him and stop him once and for all.
Meanwhile, another person who encountered the Magician as a child begins to hunt the group.
A story seeped in childhood trauma. Dark.
To me, it has a little of Stephen King's It and Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. The story never lets up as it goes. Consistently has an earie vibe. Which I'm beginning to see is Malfi's style.
Brutal in spots. One scene of animal cruelty was difficult to listen to.
It's a mix of supernatural horror and a monster that could be all too real.
Overall, I quite enjoyed this. Great horror story.
4 ⭐️
Thanks for reading 📚
Quotes: "Events in our lives often have meaning because we choose to give them meaning. Whatever the case, it arrived in the way sometimes monsters do. As a creature in need."
"We can not run from ourselves. There is a history that travels through our blood. A blueprint for the people we are to become."
"Because friendship, too, is a certain kind of magic."
"I had to rely only on the cold, callous brutality of mankind. Fortunately, there is so much of it. Even in children."
Review: In the late 90s, four children, brothers Jamie and Dennis, & friends, Clay and Mia, met a mysterious man who called himself the Magician. Wowing them with magic. He leads them to do something horrific in order to have "magic" like him.
Twenty years later, the group went their own ways. A shadow has been chasing them. Especially, Jamie. Who saw a glimpse of what the "Magician" truly looked like.
Mia sees the magician in a crowd at a carnival and brings the group back together to find him and stop him once and for all.
Meanwhile, another person who encountered the Magician as a child begins to hunt the group.
A story seeped in childhood trauma. Dark.
To me, it has a little of Stephen King's It and Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. The story never lets up as it goes. Consistently has an earie vibe. Which I'm beginning to see is Malfi's style.
Brutal in spots. One scene of animal cruelty was difficult to listen to.
It's a mix of supernatural horror and a monster that could be all too real.
Overall, I quite enjoyed this. Great horror story.
4 ⭐️
Thanks for reading 📚