Amy’s parts focus on the feelings and emotions of the characters, are much more empathetic and contain no swearing, while John’s are hyperbolic, over-exaggerated and frequently laced with sex and gratuitous violence. All three characters have distinctive voices. The characters are introduced with enough detail to give you an idea of who they are, and the narration shifts from Dave’s first person tale to events in the third person from Amy and John. I can only assume the previous books in the series are of a similar vein, and perhaps I’d have got more from it had I read them, but it doesn’t seem to need much in the way of backstory. As the body count rises, shady organisations close in on the town, and a creature dubbed the BATMANTIS? goes from being an urban legend to a terrifying reality, the story heads down a very dark path indeed… It’s a shame they threw their last vial into the river. More children disappear, but there’s some debate as to where they’ve gone, and John and Dave are convinced they need another sample of their special “Soy Sauce” that helps them to see the supernatural. Our heroes find themselves dealing with a collection of creatures that can alter memory and perception, allowing them to hide in plain sight and causing you to forget they even exist a split second after you were looking directly at them. When the boy turns up in Dave’s apartment, claiming that it was Dave who abducted him, things are only going to get worse. The child, Maggie, appears to have been abducted by a seedy character, but no one can agree on what he looked like or if he even existed.Īs the three seek out the missing girl, they learn that another child has gone missing too, this time from a trailer park. Not long after, John and Dave receive a call about a missing child, but the circumstances surrounding it are above the pay grade of any of the police and seem much more in the line of these two, who specialise in the unusual, the supernatural and the downright weird. They’re not entirely sure what it is They wanted, but at a guess it’s the vial Amy has just tossed into the river. John, Dave and Amy have just fled from Them. Instead, assuming this was a standalone, I’ve somehow skipped ahead to the third book in the series, crashing headfirst into a world that would terrify Stephen King and greatly amuse Douglas Adams.
David Wong has been on my radar for years thanks to his novel John Dies at the End, which I’ve always found an intriguing title but I’ve never got round to reading. Not for the first time, I’ve stumbled into a series in progress, but it didn’t seem to matter so much here.
“It rained like we were a splatter of bird shit God was trying to hose off his deck.”
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