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Lex Young

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Born

in The United Kingdom

Website

https://www.lexyoung-author.co.uk/

Genre

Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction

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Member Since

December 2022

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Lex Young is a horror writer hailing from Wiltshire, UK, who also likes to merge into the genre of crime and sci-fi.

Lex's first publication, A Christmas Number One, hit #1 in two separate Kindle store charts during its first month of release, and was also featured on BBC Radio in 2022.

His follow up story, V: Garcia , is currently averaging a review score of 4.9/5* on the Kindle store.

Most recently, his short story collection, Silent Fright, became a bestseller on the Kindle store.
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Average rating: 3.9 · 326 ratings · 61 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Silent Fright: A collection of chilling Christmas short stories by Lex Young (Goodreads Author), Mason Crundell 3.62 avg rating — 157 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Festive Fears: Thrilling & chilling Christmas short stories by Lex Young (Goodreads Author), Mason Crundell 3.92 avg rating — 62 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Christmas Number One 4.42 avg rating — 45 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tech The Halls: Twisty Christmas tales of tech horror by Lex Young (Goodreads Author), Murphy Gray (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 42 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	V: Garcia 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)

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Lex Young did not finish The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Although I love the show…. There’s only so much abuse you can read about 😱
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Lex Young is 51% done with It It by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) progress:	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Lex Young rated a book liked it Nowhere by Allison Gunn (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A great plot and deep characters made this an enjoyable read. I feel like the first 50-60% was excellent, but I struggled a bit with the last third and I took me a lot longer to read it than I had anticipated.
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Lex Young is currently reading The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Lex Young wants to read The Enemy (The Enemy, #1) by Charlie Higson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Lex Young did not finish The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Got half way through but I just don’t think this is for me. Had my attention at points but not enough to carry on.
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