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Jimmy
High school can be a difficult time for a teenager, especially toward the end where one has to start making the sudden transition into adulthood. For Jimmy Hawthorn it is even worse. Not only does he need to successfully make that transition, he has to do it while hiding the fact that he is the one responsible for kidnapping two fellow high school students, both of whom are hanging from their wrists in a secret underground fallout shelter he discovered behind an abandoned house on the outskirts of town.
336 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2011
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William Malmborg
22 books220 followersWilliam Malmborg is the author of the novels Jimmy, Text Message, Nikki's Secret, Dark Harvest, Blind Eye, Santa Took Them, Crystal Creek, Daddy’s Little Girl, The Girl Who Played with the Ouija Board, Josiah, He Sees You When You're Sleeping and the novellas Billy's Blade, Till Death Do Us Part and Don’t Go in the Cellar. Future works will include A Taste of Pain, The Murders at Bootleggers Burrow, and Gobble, Gobble.
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October 9, 2021
Jimmy was...not entirely what I expected.
Reading the synopsis, I thought I was getting into something a little more hardcore, particularly since this novel has become a bit of a cult-classic over the years. Don't get me wrong, this wasn't a bad thing by any means. I actually appreciated that Malmborg allowed the reader to use his imagination, rather than giving vivid play-by-play details of the rape and torture.
The premise was great...a high school senior with a sexual fetish kidnaps two classmates and uses them to act out his fantasies, only to realize having prisoners is way more work than he originally thought. I appreciated the realism and, despite everything, found Jimmy to be an oddly endearing character.
Unfortunately, the book needs edited. Badly. That's always a distraction for me when I'm reading. That was particularly true with this book, which is part of the reason it took me so long to finish.
Nevertheless, I genuinely liked the story and where Malmborg was going with it, and also appreciated the conclusion.
3.5 stars
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Reading the synopsis, I thought I was getting into something a little more hardcore, particularly since this novel has become a bit of a cult-classic over the years. Don't get me wrong, this wasn't a bad thing by any means. I actually appreciated that Malmborg allowed the reader to use his imagination, rather than giving vivid play-by-play details of the rape and torture.
The premise was great...a high school senior with a sexual fetish kidnaps two classmates and uses them to act out his fantasies, only to realize having prisoners is way more work than he originally thought. I appreciated the realism and, despite everything, found Jimmy to be an oddly endearing character.
Unfortunately, the book needs edited. Badly. That's always a distraction for me when I'm reading. That was particularly true with this book, which is part of the reason it took me so long to finish.
Nevertheless, I genuinely liked the story and where Malmborg was going with it, and also appreciated the conclusion.
3.5 stars
Available now on Amazon!
July 14, 2014
If I said it once I've said it a thousand times- I usually save my one-star reviews for books that I simply cannot finish. But every once and a while a book comes along that is just deserving enough to receive this honor. Jimmy does just that.
What a great concept. Teenage boy gets into some weird fetishes and suddenly finds himself kidnapping girls and using them as sex slaves. Horrific, dark, disturbing material- and all the things I was looking for. Instead, I got a poorly written (and edited) story that was borderline disgusting (I hardly need to know the details of an oral rape) and ridiculously plotted.
I try not to insult the intelligence of other readers and authors, but how could anyone warrant this book a good rating, let alone enjoy it?! How could anyone find this book "remarkably well-written", as I have read in so many other reviews?! This was a terrible book and I can't justify saying any more on this matter.
What a great concept. Teenage boy gets into some weird fetishes and suddenly finds himself kidnapping girls and using them as sex slaves. Horrific, dark, disturbing material- and all the things I was looking for. Instead, I got a poorly written (and edited) story that was borderline disgusting (I hardly need to know the details of an oral rape) and ridiculously plotted.
I try not to insult the intelligence of other readers and authors, but how could anyone warrant this book a good rating, let alone enjoy it?! How could anyone find this book "remarkably well-written", as I have read in so many other reviews?! This was a terrible book and I can't justify saying any more on this matter.
February 18, 2013
this is ostensibly a story about a normal kid who has certain sexual interests that, he thinks, are a bit "abnormal" (Jimmy, honey, there's a reason all those horror movies have dungeons in them, you're not a special kinky snowflake who invented a bondage fetish out of thin air) along with the usual sexual interests of a young adult his age. Apparently he has internalized so much shame about this that he sees no other alternative but to capture a young woman and hang her up in an old fallout shelter. as the story continued, the practical aspects of enacting his fantasy were overwhelming, and had him thinking it was too much work -- akin to taking care of a rather needy pet. which is why we have fantasies, though i'm not sure if this book is trying to point out that things should stay a fantasy or that you should never like anything but normal vanilla sex. i don't know. it was just terrible.
Jimmy was a faily, faily bad guy and there was something startlingly realistic in that, in how he was inexperienced and clumsy and desensitized from living in his head so much. that was the only interesting thing about the story, in my opinion. it definitely wasn't the confusing narrative soaked in melodrama, or the inexplicably tedious descriptions of the character's games of Goldeneye with his brother.
try checking out fetlife next time, Jimmy, before you kidnap innocent young women. and then maybe everyone won't die horribly at the end, which is exactly what happens to everyone in this book -- in an ending so absurd, it's best summed up as "Rocks fall and everyone dies because Jimmy likes girls in ropes."
i don't mind a dark tale, or reading fiction that makes me uncomfortable. hell, i even love melodrama! but this was a waste of a few hours and made me yell at it more than once. do yourself a favor and don't bother.
Jimmy was a faily, faily bad guy and there was something startlingly realistic in that, in how he was inexperienced and clumsy and desensitized from living in his head so much. that was the only interesting thing about the story, in my opinion. it definitely wasn't the confusing narrative soaked in melodrama, or the inexplicably tedious descriptions of the character's games of Goldeneye with his brother.
try checking out fetlife next time, Jimmy, before you kidnap innocent young women. and then maybe everyone won't die horribly at the end, which is exactly what happens to everyone in this book -- in an ending so absurd, it's best summed up as "Rocks fall and everyone dies because Jimmy likes girls in ropes."
i don't mind a dark tale, or reading fiction that makes me uncomfortable. hell, i even love melodrama! but this was a waste of a few hours and made me yell at it more than once. do yourself a favor and don't bother.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 24, 2013
What I love about William Malmborg is that he reminds me a lot of Richard Laymon. You have the violence and horror but what makes it so scary is that there's the reality that this could actually happen. Look at what happened in Cleveland and you begin to see just how sinister this book truly is.
Jimmy answers the question of what happens when fantasy becomes reality. What happens when you decide to make it happen by kidnapping and torturing a woman? This is an engrossing and dark novel that gives us a character that we truly despise yet are sucked into how well he is able to hide his addiction. I couldn't stop reading this book and yes at times there are scenes that are in fact cringe worthy but it's the story that keeps you reading. The torture is just a result of Jimmy's addiction and the ending was nothing short of stunning.
Jimmy answers the question of what happens when fantasy becomes reality. What happens when you decide to make it happen by kidnapping and torturing a woman? This is an engrossing and dark novel that gives us a character that we truly despise yet are sucked into how well he is able to hide his addiction. I couldn't stop reading this book and yes at times there are scenes that are in fact cringe worthy but it's the story that keeps you reading. The torture is just a result of Jimmy's addiction and the ending was nothing short of stunning.
October 6, 2019
Course and poorly written with multiple plot holes and blatantly obvious inconsistencies. Interesting concept which is astronomically badly executed, with a focus on grotesque scenes with no writing finesse or attempt to structure it well. Jimmy is supposedly a 'normal' teenage boy with a fetish for hanging girls and violent sex. I put normal in inverted comma's because he turns absurdly violent so quickly it is clear the boy has way more issues than his fetishes alone.
The plot is equally absurd. He kidnaps a girl and nobody pays any attention whatsoever. He strings her up and she goes from vaguely fiesty to so damn placid and submissive that it is ridiculous in less than twenty four hours. Despite the entire town knowing about the deserted building he keeps her in, nobody bothers to look there even when people finally start searching because the Sherriff's daughter has also been kidnapped. Jimmy is violent to everyone, acting strangely and generally being suspicious and that isn't followed up. There are in depth depictions of violent and sexual acts, people pissing themselves and other bondage - but obviously not consensual scenes.
In between this you get long winded descriptions of him playing video games with his brother - James Bond, I believe. Descriptions of him watching bondage/rape porn and being disappointed with how it's turning out in real life. Jimmy beating the crap out of people and a truly stupid scene where a young man is asked to collect a girl from school by her mum. Despite two girls now being missing from school, this idiot literally chases her into school. What adult man would do that in an atmosphere of fear, particularly when the girl was very clear why she wasn't getting into his car. Come on.
That brings us onto Tina, the girl chased into the school. There is a lot of boring melodrama between her and her mother for no reason whatsoever. You get some supposedly crucial back story to the mum, but too late for it to have any impact. They both act in a ridiculously juvenile fashion and only one has the excuse of being a hormonal teenager.
I have no issue with dark or graphic tales. I object to poor characters, absurd plotlines and behaviour and stupidity in general. This demonstrate all of these in abundance and the ending is the worst offender of the lot. It is rushed, ill thought out and an obvious cop out because the author didn't want to have to bother with annoying little details like long term consequences or reverberations. There are some excellent thrillers out there. This is not one of them.
The plot is equally absurd. He kidnaps a girl and nobody pays any attention whatsoever. He strings her up and she goes from vaguely fiesty to so damn placid and submissive that it is ridiculous in less than twenty four hours. Despite the entire town knowing about the deserted building he keeps her in, nobody bothers to look there even when people finally start searching because the Sherriff's daughter has also been kidnapped. Jimmy is violent to everyone, acting strangely and generally being suspicious and that isn't followed up. There are in depth depictions of violent and sexual acts, people pissing themselves and other bondage - but obviously not consensual scenes.
In between this you get long winded descriptions of him playing video games with his brother - James Bond, I believe. Descriptions of him watching bondage/rape porn and being disappointed with how it's turning out in real life. Jimmy beating the crap out of people and a truly stupid scene where a young man is asked to collect a girl from school by her mum. Despite two girls now being missing from school, this idiot literally chases her into school. What adult man would do that in an atmosphere of fear, particularly when the girl was very clear why she wasn't getting into his car. Come on.
That brings us onto Tina, the girl chased into the school. There is a lot of boring melodrama between her and her mother for no reason whatsoever. You get some supposedly crucial back story to the mum, but too late for it to have any impact. They both act in a ridiculously juvenile fashion and only one has the excuse of being a hormonal teenager.
I have no issue with dark or graphic tales. I object to poor characters, absurd plotlines and behaviour and stupidity in general. This demonstrate all of these in abundance and the ending is the worst offender of the lot. It is rushed, ill thought out and an obvious cop out because the author didn't want to have to bother with annoying little details like long term consequences or reverberations. There are some excellent thrillers out there. This is not one of them.
February 6, 2022
4 stars audio
2 stars story. Writing style needs serious work. Very amateurish.
2 stars story. Writing style needs serious work. Very amateurish.
September 8, 2023
3.5 Teenage Jimmy is a relatively normal high school senior with a nice family, a younger brother who looks up to him and a cute girl who wants to be his girlfriend. Unfortunately he is obsessed with bandage porn and thinks the only thing that can make him happy is kidnapping one of his classmates and keeping her chained up in an abandoned fallout shelter. At first he is thrilled to be enacting his dream but the reality of the situation is about to get a whole lot more complicated as the logistics of secretly keeping a person alive are a lot more difficult than he anticipated. The natural tone and believable teenage characters undercut the squirmy premise and Jimmy is an interesting villain who so compartmentalizes his sides that he seems like two different people until they start to bleed together. I actually thought this was an interesting take on how porn culture can lead young men to think that the only means to satisfaction are in inflicting their scenarios on others. Jimmy finds out the fantasy and the reality are two quite different things.
May 2, 2012
Story idea is superb but editing is dire. Mistakes on every page I read pretty much........I can't be wading through all those errors however good a story might be, I'm afraid.
November 4, 2018
Probably the worst book I've ever read.
April 23, 2012
I was blown away by this disturbing tale of obsession and could not put this book down.
There was an extensive amount of character development here, and this story is far from the soft-core torture porn one would expect when reading the premise. I actually grew to feel for Jimmy, and though disturbing, one could almost see why he felt he had to do what he did. What started as a fantasy for him, quickly develops into a nightmare for not just the two girls he abducts, but an entire community. Each character, each new perspective, pulls you deeper into the web of darkness and secrecy that envelops this young man and his insatiable desires.
The crisp, concise writing pulls the plot along at a rapid pace and I found myself spellbound, often holding my breath at times, fearful of what would happen next. Only a few typos mar this story, but even those were not enough to detract from the events at hand. Reading this was akin to watching some great disaster start to unfold. You want to look away from the impending horror…but you can’t.
I liked the uniqueness here. There was no history of abuse or molestation. Just a simple curiosity that grew into something much more sinister. Yet despite his fixation with power and bondage, Jimmy is surprisingly normal. He’s shy, uncertain of his future after graduation, a bit socially awkward at school, but has strong ties to his family, especially his younger brother, Alan. He’s easy to imagine as the boy next door, and that’s what makes this tale so chilling.
Overall, this was a fantastic read. The plot was unsettling and gripping, the characters all solid and easy to relate to. The message at the end, haunting. I read it front to back in the matter of a few hours and would definitely buy from this author again.
There was an extensive amount of character development here, and this story is far from the soft-core torture porn one would expect when reading the premise. I actually grew to feel for Jimmy, and though disturbing, one could almost see why he felt he had to do what he did. What started as a fantasy for him, quickly develops into a nightmare for not just the two girls he abducts, but an entire community. Each character, each new perspective, pulls you deeper into the web of darkness and secrecy that envelops this young man and his insatiable desires.
The crisp, concise writing pulls the plot along at a rapid pace and I found myself spellbound, often holding my breath at times, fearful of what would happen next. Only a few typos mar this story, but even those were not enough to detract from the events at hand. Reading this was akin to watching some great disaster start to unfold. You want to look away from the impending horror…but you can’t.
I liked the uniqueness here. There was no history of abuse or molestation. Just a simple curiosity that grew into something much more sinister. Yet despite his fixation with power and bondage, Jimmy is surprisingly normal. He’s shy, uncertain of his future after graduation, a bit socially awkward at school, but has strong ties to his family, especially his younger brother, Alan. He’s easy to imagine as the boy next door, and that’s what makes this tale so chilling.
Overall, this was a fantastic read. The plot was unsettling and gripping, the characters all solid and easy to relate to. The message at the end, haunting. I read it front to back in the matter of a few hours and would definitely buy from this author again.
June 25, 2016
I basically read this book on a dare.....
It was featured in a daily email I get, notifying me of cheap or free ebooks from Amazon, and some months back, this was one of them.... The description intrigued me, but I was a bit uncertain as to whether or not the book would be worth my time or not..... I read some reviews, and one of the reviewers basically said "the book is sick and perverted, and you are a sick pervert if you buy and read this book!"... Well now, my curiosity wide awake, I downloaded it (it was free after all, so what harm could be done, right?), and started reading...... 17% in I had to put it down....
The writing is NOT the best ever, and I am really not that big of a connoisseur when it comes to good or bad writing, but the editing was a bit poor (that could still be overlooked though), and then the writer's use of the characters actually _saying_ "Aahhhh!" when in pain, THAT lost me, for several months....
Now, my gripe is mostly with those first few chapters, where the premise of the story starts off, but the writing DID seem to me to get better after that..... Maybe because the girls were mostly unconscious... xD
The book DID make an interesting point (to me at least that was a point), that maybe getting what you fantasize about can still prove to be quite a bit of work, at least if you want that new reality to hold up against your fantasy.... I don't know if that was the point trying to be made, but that was what I took away from it....
I also really liked the different POV's.... The main character is basically the bad guy.... But he is just a kid.... With all that angst that goes with being a teenager in a small town..... I didn't hate Jimmy.... Yes, he did some horrible, horrible things to a couple of his peers, but he was kinda desperate..... Seeing his POV and his angst and, I guess, his uncertainty about himself and his place in the World, I kinda get it..... Would I do the same? Probably not, but that does not mean I have not been desperate myself.... Hell, I still get desperate from time to time, and I am well into my 30'es...
It was an interesting read, to say the least..... And it was okay, for what it was, and it provided me with what I was looking for, from it; mainly a look into the mind of a human that, quite like myself, is confused and haven't found his place in the World....
It was featured in a daily email I get, notifying me of cheap or free ebooks from Amazon, and some months back, this was one of them.... The description intrigued me, but I was a bit uncertain as to whether or not the book would be worth my time or not..... I read some reviews, and one of the reviewers basically said "the book is sick and perverted, and you are a sick pervert if you buy and read this book!"... Well now, my curiosity wide awake, I downloaded it (it was free after all, so what harm could be done, right?), and started reading...... 17% in I had to put it down....
The writing is NOT the best ever, and I am really not that big of a connoisseur when it comes to good or bad writing, but the editing was a bit poor (that could still be overlooked though), and then the writer's use of the characters actually _saying_ "Aahhhh!" when in pain, THAT lost me, for several months....
Now, my gripe is mostly with those first few chapters, where the premise of the story starts off, but the writing DID seem to me to get better after that..... Maybe because the girls were mostly unconscious... xD
The book DID make an interesting point (to me at least that was a point), that maybe getting what you fantasize about can still prove to be quite a bit of work, at least if you want that new reality to hold up against your fantasy.... I don't know if that was the point trying to be made, but that was what I took away from it....
I also really liked the different POV's.... The main character is basically the bad guy.... But he is just a kid.... With all that angst that goes with being a teenager in a small town..... I didn't hate Jimmy.... Yes, he did some horrible, horrible things to a couple of his peers, but he was kinda desperate..... Seeing his POV and his angst and, I guess, his uncertainty about himself and his place in the World, I kinda get it..... Would I do the same? Probably not, but that does not mean I have not been desperate myself.... Hell, I still get desperate from time to time, and I am well into my 30'es...
It was an interesting read, to say the least..... And it was okay, for what it was, and it provided me with what I was looking for, from it; mainly a look into the mind of a human that, quite like myself, is confused and haven't found his place in the World....
November 8, 2011
*** DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS!*** I did like it though as it kept me turning the page and I hoped that Jimmy would make the right decision. But I also knew he couldn't because he had already allowed the girls to see him and know who he was.
Talk about a book where one person's actions cause a HUGE ripple effect. This was it. It is a graphic and explicit book and one not to be read by anyone sensitive to bondage/sexual assault issues. It was pretty strong stuff. Let me see if I can sort out the characters and what happens.
Jimmy is a high school Senior with no real plans in life. He is smart, funny, good looking and likeable....if you know him. To others though he is an outcast of sorts. Up until the past few years he had been picked on and bullied by a group of boys. Jimmy has developed a taste for bondage though and decides it is time to act out his most secret fantasies of kidnap, rape, and ultimately, murder.
Brett, the leader of the boys that have bullied Jimmy, is merciless and does not know that some of the other boys have had confrontations with Jimmy and are tired of picking on him and bullying him because they fear him. They don't know why they fear him but he has started standing up to them and there is just something in his eyes that is not right. But not Brett. He keeps on and keeps on. He does not know about Jimmy's darkest secret though.
Alan is Jimmy's younger brother and looks up to Jimmy. He starts to see that something is NOT right. He sees Jimmy go on bike rides at all hours of the day and night. He sees that there is something in his eyes that is not right and his behavior is just off. But he does not say anything to anyone.
Tina is a long time friend of Jimmy and likes him a lot. He likes her too and they begin a sexual relationship just prior to going to the Prom together. It is the first time either of them have been in a serious relationship and they are both enamored and in "love" with each other.
Samantha is the first girl that Jimmy kidnaps and hides in the storm shelter of an abandoned house. He does not really have a good plan but is fascinated with hanging her from her wrists. He has not considered the whole plan though. He just knows he is going to keep her there til he is done with her and then kill her.
Meagan is Samantha's best friend and is the ONLY one other than Samantha's mom that believes she has been kidnapped. Meagan's father is the Sheriff but they don't have a good relationship so Meagan does not go to him with her fears and theories. Instead she sets of on her own search and ends up running into Jimmy. He actually set it up where she would run into him so he could kidnap her as well and take her to the shelter. This is where Jimmy's plan goes terribly wrong for him. He cannot control Meagan like he controlled Samantha. She fights him and causes him to panic. During one of their fights he hits her in the face with a metal bucket and ends up killing her.
It all unravels on Prom night. Jimmy made the mistake of throwing away all his bondage videos that he had been collecting in a trash can at school. Brett and his friend find them and decide to use them to lure Jimmy to the old house where they can beat him up. Jimmy beat Brett's friend almost to death and goes to the house where he shoots Brett, shoots his brother by mistake, and allows the police to shoot and kill him.
Now for the ripples that spread from there..... As I said, Meagan died. She was not even supposed to be there in the first place. Jimmy dies, leaving behind a girlfriend who is confused and wonders if there was anything she could have done. Samantha lives but finds out she is pregnant and at the end of the book is getting ready to down a whole bottle of sleeping pills. While recovering, Alan is trapped in the house when someone firebombs it and he is burned to death.
So one boy's decision to kidnap one girl ended up tearing apart a whole community and causing a family to lose both their sons. This was a dark book but shows that one person's decision for good or bad can cause a world of difference in everyone else's lives.
Talk about a book where one person's actions cause a HUGE ripple effect. This was it. It is a graphic and explicit book and one not to be read by anyone sensitive to bondage/sexual assault issues. It was pretty strong stuff. Let me see if I can sort out the characters and what happens.
Jimmy is a high school Senior with no real plans in life. He is smart, funny, good looking and likeable....if you know him. To others though he is an outcast of sorts. Up until the past few years he had been picked on and bullied by a group of boys. Jimmy has developed a taste for bondage though and decides it is time to act out his most secret fantasies of kidnap, rape, and ultimately, murder.
Brett, the leader of the boys that have bullied Jimmy, is merciless and does not know that some of the other boys have had confrontations with Jimmy and are tired of picking on him and bullying him because they fear him. They don't know why they fear him but he has started standing up to them and there is just something in his eyes that is not right. But not Brett. He keeps on and keeps on. He does not know about Jimmy's darkest secret though.
Alan is Jimmy's younger brother and looks up to Jimmy. He starts to see that something is NOT right. He sees Jimmy go on bike rides at all hours of the day and night. He sees that there is something in his eyes that is not right and his behavior is just off. But he does not say anything to anyone.
Tina is a long time friend of Jimmy and likes him a lot. He likes her too and they begin a sexual relationship just prior to going to the Prom together. It is the first time either of them have been in a serious relationship and they are both enamored and in "love" with each other.
Samantha is the first girl that Jimmy kidnaps and hides in the storm shelter of an abandoned house. He does not really have a good plan but is fascinated with hanging her from her wrists. He has not considered the whole plan though. He just knows he is going to keep her there til he is done with her and then kill her.
Meagan is Samantha's best friend and is the ONLY one other than Samantha's mom that believes she has been kidnapped. Meagan's father is the Sheriff but they don't have a good relationship so Meagan does not go to him with her fears and theories. Instead she sets of on her own search and ends up running into Jimmy. He actually set it up where she would run into him so he could kidnap her as well and take her to the shelter. This is where Jimmy's plan goes terribly wrong for him. He cannot control Meagan like he controlled Samantha. She fights him and causes him to panic. During one of their fights he hits her in the face with a metal bucket and ends up killing her.
It all unravels on Prom night. Jimmy made the mistake of throwing away all his bondage videos that he had been collecting in a trash can at school. Brett and his friend find them and decide to use them to lure Jimmy to the old house where they can beat him up. Jimmy beat Brett's friend almost to death and goes to the house where he shoots Brett, shoots his brother by mistake, and allows the police to shoot and kill him.
Now for the ripples that spread from there..... As I said, Meagan died. She was not even supposed to be there in the first place. Jimmy dies, leaving behind a girlfriend who is confused and wonders if there was anything she could have done. Samantha lives but finds out she is pregnant and at the end of the book is getting ready to down a whole bottle of sleeping pills. While recovering, Alan is trapped in the house when someone firebombs it and he is burned to death.
So one boy's decision to kidnap one girl ended up tearing apart a whole community and causing a family to lose both their sons. This was a dark book but shows that one person's decision for good or bad can cause a world of difference in everyone else's lives.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 20, 2011
HOLY CRAP, good but VERY disturbing! Jimmy sure as hell messed up A LOT of peoples lives by the end of this book and all because of some fetish that he thought he would get off on but then realized it was more like work then fun. Then when he starts dating Tina he realizes how much he liked sex with her that he starts to wonder what to do with the girls he kidnapped then at prom EVERYTHING blows up in his face and thats when people start to get hurt.
In this whole thing I feel bad for the people who are effected because of Jimmy's bad decisions and I hate and almost cried because of what happens to Jimmy's younger brother Alan, just because Jimmy was a bad guy on the side doesn't make Alan one but he suffered the consequences of being related to him from the nurses being rude to him while he was recovering to being a victim of hate crime. And 2 months after being rescued Samantha is still suffering!
I give this book 3 stars because it was good but it isn't a book I could keep reading I had to take breaks because it deals with a lot of disturbing issues, I also found it repeated itself a lot and I lost track of time during this book I have no clue how long the girls were missing and I was really curious as to what happens in Smantha's recovery knowing she survived and I really want to know who I have to hate for Alan's tragedy and I can't tell you how much I hate his parents at this point, if he was my kid and I knew he was hurt and needed help I don't care if I would get hurt I would do anything for my kid.
In this whole thing I feel bad for the people who are effected because of Jimmy's bad decisions and I hate and almost cried because of what happens to Jimmy's younger brother Alan, just because Jimmy was a bad guy on the side doesn't make Alan one but he suffered the consequences of being related to him from the nurses being rude to him while he was recovering to being a victim of hate crime. And 2 months after being rescued Samantha is still suffering!
I give this book 3 stars because it was good but it isn't a book I could keep reading I had to take breaks because it deals with a lot of disturbing issues, I also found it repeated itself a lot and I lost track of time during this book I have no clue how long the girls were missing and I was really curious as to what happens in Smantha's recovery knowing she survived and I really want to know who I have to hate for Alan's tragedy and I can't tell you how much I hate his parents at this point, if he was my kid and I knew he was hurt and needed help I don't care if I would get hurt I would do anything for my kid.
September 17, 2018
Omg what a book. I really didn’t want it to end.
This book is a proper page turner that will just want you to keep reading and reading. I really grew to jimmy. Yes he had some very disturbing fantasy’s that he ended turning into reality. I loved his brother Alan. Like a brother that you always wanted. Now with Tina I could really slap her. She wouldn’t give her mum a chance and hated the way she spoke to her.
With the ending that happened I am really hoping there will be a sequel
This book is a proper page turner that will just want you to keep reading and reading. I really grew to jimmy. Yes he had some very disturbing fantasy’s that he ended turning into reality. I loved his brother Alan. Like a brother that you always wanted. Now with Tina I could really slap her. She wouldn’t give her mum a chance and hated the way she spoke to her.
With the ending that happened I am really hoping there will be a sequel
May 25, 2012
Excellent. Shades of Ketchum. And I don't say that lightly.
June 13, 2013
This my first time reading Malmborg's work in the form of a novel, and I have to say that, overall, he tells a compelling story that is equal parts gut-wrenching, suspenseful, warm, but ultimately tragic. I'm actually hesitant to call Jimmy a a "horror" novel. I feel it would fit in under crime and suspense more appropriately. With the recent news of the kidnappers in Ohio who put their victims through similar tortures to that which the subject of this novel doles out to his victims, I truly appreciated Malmborg's long, unblinking look into the darkest aspects of human nature. The author is not trying to gross us out, he is simply drawing on the reality we see in tragic crime stories every day, and that can be scary enough. He shows us just how seamlessly a monster and a man can co-exist under the same skull cap. Jimmy Hawthorn is tragic, for certain, because while he proves himself a remorseless son-of-a-bitch, with zero empathy for those whose lives he destroys, he manages to be a very loyal, loving, and funny friend, brother, and son outside of that context, which makes the eventual climax all the more floor-dropping. In that way, he is more Francis Dolarhyde than Hannibal Lecter. What makes Jimmy (the novel) enjoyable, I think, is how Malmborg characterizes the people in his story. He seems to remember very well what it was like to be a young person: scared, defiant, curious, unreasonable, silly, care-free...and we really feel for those persons who live and laugh and exist while just below the surface (in some cases literally) there is a very real ugliness that threatens to unravel everything, and that's what makes the story most unsettling. The pacing of the book is also very well done, and Malmborg proves himself a story teller who keeps his audience engaged. I enjoyed the shifting perspectives within a scene especially. The only reason I didn't finish the novel sooner was that I had to stop reading it before bed. I recommend this read, but only if you can stomach some very dark moments. But if you can, there's very well done thriller here. I look forward to continue following this author's work.
June 26, 2012
It was the cover art that caught my eye, but the story held my attention. It may not be for everyone, but it’s very unique. I sped through this book devouring every word – watching the progression and downward spiral of JIMMY’s long imagined fantasy play out in normal suburbia. You know how it is… imagining a scenario for so long (okay, maybe not this exact scenario), but then when it occurs – it’s always less “fantasy” and more “work” than you anticipate. Nothing is ever as good as your own imagination. You almost in some odd way feel bad for the main character as he plods through the maintenance of his fantasy; his frustration; his confusion as what’s “normal and satisfying” and “abnormal and unsatisfying” collide in the real-world; and as he tries to balance the relationships he has on the surface as well as in the bomb shelter.
I think the author did a good job of developing characters that don’t necessarily live up completely to their good/bad role. Hell, Jimmy is a sick kidnapper that wants to string and stretch you up an inch off the ground to fulfill his every tension filled submissive fantasy and yet he’s also the attentive older funny brother and shy boyfriend that takes you to prom. Even his victims are a mixed lot. One who gives up so easily / one who fights so hard / the jerk bullies looking for a fight. I found it hard to dislike Jimmy and even harder to like the victims at times.
But as things start to spiral towards the end – I think the ending was perfect. I’m so often disappointed in bad endings to otherwise good books. Nothing is ruined here – well except for the lives of those that Jimmy left behind, those that loved him and those that in his weird way that he loved.
I think the author did a good job of developing characters that don’t necessarily live up completely to their good/bad role. Hell, Jimmy is a sick kidnapper that wants to string and stretch you up an inch off the ground to fulfill his every tension filled submissive fantasy and yet he’s also the attentive older funny brother and shy boyfriend that takes you to prom. Even his victims are a mixed lot. One who gives up so easily / one who fights so hard / the jerk bullies looking for a fight. I found it hard to dislike Jimmy and even harder to like the victims at times.
But as things start to spiral towards the end – I think the ending was perfect. I’m so often disappointed in bad endings to otherwise good books. Nothing is ruined here – well except for the lives of those that Jimmy left behind, those that loved him and those that in his weird way that he loved.
June 5, 2013
When the line between fantasy and reality is crossed, there is no turning back to the way things used to be.
Since turning the Hood’s abandoned fall out shelter into his private sex dungeon, and kidnapping Samantha King & Megan Reed, Jimmy Hawthorne is learning this lesson firsthand. It doesn’t take long before real life intrudes, and his fantasy of having his very own sex slaves reminds him of the rabbit he didn’t like taking care of as a kid.
Renacting his favorite scenes from bondage sites and fetish videos only get him so far. As the thrill and excitement wane, he considers just sealing up the shelter and walking away. But, he knows that he would still be drawn to them. Even in death, the call will always be stronger than his will.
Real life contains the regular intrusions as well. a new girlfriend, [Tina], the ass-hat classmates [Brett, Matt, and Paulie], who try to play the ‘bully’ role, and a younger brother, [Alan], who’s perception is just short of Hercule Poirot’s. The local police presence is growing, and his school prom is just around the corner.
All these things combined make for one kick ass and intense story.
This should go without saying, but, JIMMY is an 18+ story. Since I’ve reviewed a couple YA books lately, I figure it can’t hurt to throw that in.
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Since turning the Hood’s abandoned fall out shelter into his private sex dungeon, and kidnapping Samantha King & Megan Reed, Jimmy Hawthorne is learning this lesson firsthand. It doesn’t take long before real life intrudes, and his fantasy of having his very own sex slaves reminds him of the rabbit he didn’t like taking care of as a kid.
Renacting his favorite scenes from bondage sites and fetish videos only get him so far. As the thrill and excitement wane, he considers just sealing up the shelter and walking away. But, he knows that he would still be drawn to them. Even in death, the call will always be stronger than his will.
Real life contains the regular intrusions as well. a new girlfriend, [Tina], the ass-hat classmates [Brett, Matt, and Paulie], who try to play the ‘bully’ role, and a younger brother, [Alan], who’s perception is just short of Hercule Poirot’s. The local police presence is growing, and his school prom is just around the corner.
All these things combined make for one kick ass and intense story.
This should go without saying, but, JIMMY is an 18+ story. Since I’ve reviewed a couple YA books lately, I figure it can’t hurt to throw that in.
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January 21, 2015
I've read two other books by the author before, both of which utterly failed to impress, but this one was actually compared to Ketchum's work by Glen Krisch, so I thought maybe third time would be the charm. As in a way it was. Mind you comparing Malmborg to Ketchum is like comparing McDonalds to a proper home cooked meal, but this book was a noticeable improvement over his other ones. Maybe it's because he writes teenagers better than adults, not sure, but his younger heroes come across far less annoying and much more realistic. This book does feature an all teen cast, but it doesn't come across as YA. What it does come across as and if Malmborg had to be compared to any other horror author, it's very Laymonesque. All the same ingredients similarly mixed to achieve a tale of horny youth gone so very wrong. Jimmy is an eighteen year old kid from a perfectly nice family, with a perfectly good relationship with his younger brother, a pretty girlfriend, a seemingly average life...and a passion for bondage which takes him on a very dangerous journey of kidnapping, torture and self discovery. There is actually a pretty interesting duality to Jimmy and character development goes a long way in books like these, which can otherwise be easily dismissed as just genre junk. Surprisingly this turned out to be a pretty decent read.
March 26, 2013
This book is not for the faint at heart, it was well written and disturbing in a very good way. Follow Jimmy on his path to destruction and obsession. The ending will shock you and you will find yourself almost feeling sorry for Jimmy. I wish there had been one more chapter in the book. Just to button up the fallout more. Jimmy is a 17 year old that abducts Samantha King for starters, his reasoning is kind of warped but the author makes you want to read more. After the abduction Jimmy seems to live normally (per si) but not quite. Then comes the other abductions. We are also with Jimmy when he gets his first real date and tries to conceal his true craziness. There is bullying in the book that may give some insight on why Jimmy is as screwed up as he is. Just my opinion. This book really takes you into the mind of a twisted person but as I have stated it is done very well. I hope to read more from this Author soon. Maybe a sequel with the aftermath of Jimmy's actions.
January 29, 2013
Wow, this was a really dark and terrifying story. Jimmy takes a bondage fetish way too far when he decides to abduct a two fellow classmates and act out his sick fantasies. I felt so bad for these two girls. Samantha was taken first and brutalized by Jimmy to the point where she is broken. Days later, he abducts Megan because she was getting too close to finding Samantha. Megan is determined not to let Jimmy break her as he did Samantha. She's a fighter and isn't going to submit so easily.
Although the story is very dark and the subject matter is disturbing, it was still a fascinating read. Overall, I would recommend Jimmy if you like Jack Ketchum type stories.
Although the story is very dark and the subject matter is disturbing, it was still a fascinating read. Overall, I would recommend Jimmy if you like Jack Ketchum type stories.
March 29, 2013
Once I started I could NOT stop. And it makes you think about everyone you went to high school with and wonder if someone you sat next too was "that boy" and you narrowly missed being a victim. This book was well written and it your attention hostage until the very end.
August 1, 2014
Jimmy is not your usual high school senior. He has no friends and lives a dark fantasy life that tips him over the edge to kidnap and torture two of his classmates. It is dark and violent and does not have a happy ending. Yet it is a taut psychological tale as well.
March 3, 2025
What a pile of 💩. Thought it would be a fast paced thriller - turned out to be a poorly constructed story based on a teenager with some role play fantasies that go wrong. On a positive note not a big book so not much life wasted reading it!
February 3, 2013
Started slow but turned into a real page turner finished in a day
June 12, 2020
This is a horribly written book. It comes off as a book written by a horny 12 year old. So many grammatical errors too. This book belongs in the garbage!
June 5, 2020
This starts off well enough, with high school boy Jimmy kidnapping one of his female schoolmates, Samantha, in order to fulfil his long-held fantasy. Luckily for Jimmy, a local family has abandoned their remote home which includes a secret underground shelter/cellar where he can take Samantha and hang her from her wrists. The local police don't take the kidnapping seriously and assume the girl has run off or something, leaving Jimmy free reign to act out his fantasies. This is a set up for a disturbing psychological horror but unfortunately this is underplayed. Malmborg has at least tried to make it more interesting by showing the physical realities of keeping someone in a cellar (the smell!), but having captured his prize, Jimmy almost seems not to bother with her.
The trouble is, the majority of the book is taken up with sideshows; Jimmy's relationship with his girlfriend Tina, his feud with rival classmates, Tina's feud with her mother, Jimmy hanging out with his brother Alan. None of this is horror, and the only part that is horror is relegated to an inconvenience for Jimmy. Sure, some of the few scenes that take place in the cellar are quite nasty, but any readers who are shocked or disgusted by it probably haven't ready any top-drawer horror.
Despite the writing style leaving something to be desired, Malmborg does keep things moving, even if it's often in the wrong direction. If the novel does have a point to make, and to credit the author I think it does, it's that anything is okay as long as it stays in your head. Once you step over the line and try to turn a fantasy into reality and involve innocent people, things soon get messy and it's not fun anymore. For this and the fact that Malmborg kept me reading because I genuinely had to know how things turned out, Jimmy just about scrapes 3 stars.
The trouble is, the majority of the book is taken up with sideshows; Jimmy's relationship with his girlfriend Tina, his feud with rival classmates, Tina's feud with her mother, Jimmy hanging out with his brother Alan. None of this is horror, and the only part that is horror is relegated to an inconvenience for Jimmy. Sure, some of the few scenes that take place in the cellar are quite nasty, but any readers who are shocked or disgusted by it probably haven't ready any top-drawer horror.
Despite the writing style leaving something to be desired, Malmborg does keep things moving, even if it's often in the wrong direction. If the novel does have a point to make, and to credit the author I think it does, it's that anything is okay as long as it stays in your head. Once you step over the line and try to turn a fantasy into reality and involve innocent people, things soon get messy and it's not fun anymore. For this and the fact that Malmborg kept me reading because I genuinely had to know how things turned out, Jimmy just about scrapes 3 stars.
April 11, 2021
Holy smokes this was quite the ride! It was grim and gory and horrific and graphic and shocking and I couldn’t stop reading it! A little glimpse into the mind of someone who clearly has issues and I found myself invested in the characters and needing to know what was going to happen... at times I felt myself hoping Jimmy was going to get away with what he was doing as his character was so charming in a way... crazy read!
September 10, 2013
The synopsis of “Jimmy” interested me and I was eager to find out why a high school student would kidnap two teenage girls. I clearly had no idea what I was letting myself in for. Looking back, I wish the book had come with a warning, but because it doesn’t, I’ll just let you know that this is definitely not a read for anyone under the age of nineteen. If you’re sensitive to profanity, violence, torture, erotica, and children with abusive behavior towards their parents, rather give “Jimmy” a miss. The book is full of grammatical and spelling errors, and the writing leaves much to be desired. Still, mediocre writing aside, the idea behind the story fascinated me as Jimmy is quite a contradictory character, and I wanted to see it through to the end to find out what’s going to happen to Samantha and Megan.
***SPOILER ALERT***
I try not to include spoilers in my reviews, but with this I’m making an exception. There are a lot of disturbing content in this story and again I want to issue a warning that you should be aware of what you’re letting yourself in for when picking up a copy of “Jimmy”.
The one bright spot is that the story is morbidly engaging. You want to put it down at times and just get away from the horrid torture these girls have to endure, and Jimmy’s twisted mind. At the same time, you’re so worried about Samantha and Megan and what’s going to become of them, that you feel obligated to suffer with them. Jimmy is not an easy character to understand. He and his brother Alan comes from a good home where their parents seem to be loving people but simultaneously take a laissez faire approach to their upbringing. They’re allowed to cuss, have seemingly unlimited access to adult sites on the internet, no noticeable limit on their credit cards, and it is never explained why or how Jimmy owns a gun (and now that Aerosmith tune is stuck in my head). Ironically, Jimmy and Alan are the only ones not disrespecting their parents, while the rest of the characters hurl abuse at their parents as they please. Take Tina for instance. Some, like Tina, may feel that she has a good enough reason to despise her mother, but the way she talks to her mother and threaten her is absolutely repulsive and in reality most adults won’t tolerate such behavior. This was a big no-no for me. In the grand scheme of things, Tina’s relationship with her mother didn’t really fit in with the rest of the story anyway as it didn’t add anything to the plot. Her behavior certainly doesn’t endear her to the reader so other than her being Jimmy’s love interest and he her “first”, her antipathy towards her mother had no place in this story. And don’t even get me started on the scene where Tina loses her virginity to Jimmy. Oh my gosh, can you say “male fantasy”? That scene was so unrealistic it was laughable.
As I said earlier, Jimmy is a contradictory character. I think that’s what the author had in mind and for this I give him kudos. The reader wants to like Jimmy because he comes across as a well-adjusted teenager who’s a little shy around girls, doesn’t cause any trouble at school (even stands up to the bullies), gets along well with his parents and his brother, and shows compassion towards animals and even towards his captives. But in his head, Jimmy is seriously messed-up and has been having weird fantasies – mostly involving handcuffs and hanging girls from their wrists - since he was a little boy. That in itself I found disturbing enough, but it gets worse. Now, I don’t want to include too many spoilers for those who at this point feel they still want to go ahead and read this book, but it’s best you don’t snack or eat while reading “Jimmy”. There are a lot of descriptive scenes involving vomiting and characters urinating themselves, and the violence is quite shocking. Readers into the whole bondage thing might get a thrill from this, but it didn’t do anything for me.
I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the ending either, but I’m glad that Jimmy got what he deserved. I was hoping that his punishment would be more severe, and in truth I think the author could’ve done a lot more with the entire storyline. Though there were times I simply couldn’t tear myself away from the pages, I was glad when it came to an end. Regardless of the content I wasn’t prepared for, and the fact that I feel the writing needs a round of clean-up editing, I would definitely read more of this author’s books, as I was fascinated and wholly engrossed by Jimmy and his doings. None of the characters are remotely likable, and I couldn’t understand why the townspeople wouldn’t be out searching frantically for the Sheriff’s daughter when she was the second girl who went missing in a matter of days. How Samantha could be pregnant with Jimmy’s baby when he never even had intercourse with her, is beyond me. Many such things not making a lick of sense, but if you have the stomach for it, “Jimmy”, at the very least, is an engaging read.
***SPOILER ALERT***
I try not to include spoilers in my reviews, but with this I’m making an exception. There are a lot of disturbing content in this story and again I want to issue a warning that you should be aware of what you’re letting yourself in for when picking up a copy of “Jimmy”.
The one bright spot is that the story is morbidly engaging. You want to put it down at times and just get away from the horrid torture these girls have to endure, and Jimmy’s twisted mind. At the same time, you’re so worried about Samantha and Megan and what’s going to become of them, that you feel obligated to suffer with them. Jimmy is not an easy character to understand. He and his brother Alan comes from a good home where their parents seem to be loving people but simultaneously take a laissez faire approach to their upbringing. They’re allowed to cuss, have seemingly unlimited access to adult sites on the internet, no noticeable limit on their credit cards, and it is never explained why or how Jimmy owns a gun (and now that Aerosmith tune is stuck in my head). Ironically, Jimmy and Alan are the only ones not disrespecting their parents, while the rest of the characters hurl abuse at their parents as they please. Take Tina for instance. Some, like Tina, may feel that she has a good enough reason to despise her mother, but the way she talks to her mother and threaten her is absolutely repulsive and in reality most adults won’t tolerate such behavior. This was a big no-no for me. In the grand scheme of things, Tina’s relationship with her mother didn’t really fit in with the rest of the story anyway as it didn’t add anything to the plot. Her behavior certainly doesn’t endear her to the reader so other than her being Jimmy’s love interest and he her “first”, her antipathy towards her mother had no place in this story. And don’t even get me started on the scene where Tina loses her virginity to Jimmy. Oh my gosh, can you say “male fantasy”? That scene was so unrealistic it was laughable.
As I said earlier, Jimmy is a contradictory character. I think that’s what the author had in mind and for this I give him kudos. The reader wants to like Jimmy because he comes across as a well-adjusted teenager who’s a little shy around girls, doesn’t cause any trouble at school (even stands up to the bullies), gets along well with his parents and his brother, and shows compassion towards animals and even towards his captives. But in his head, Jimmy is seriously messed-up and has been having weird fantasies – mostly involving handcuffs and hanging girls from their wrists - since he was a little boy. That in itself I found disturbing enough, but it gets worse. Now, I don’t want to include too many spoilers for those who at this point feel they still want to go ahead and read this book, but it’s best you don’t snack or eat while reading “Jimmy”. There are a lot of descriptive scenes involving vomiting and characters urinating themselves, and the violence is quite shocking. Readers into the whole bondage thing might get a thrill from this, but it didn’t do anything for me.
I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the ending either, but I’m glad that Jimmy got what he deserved. I was hoping that his punishment would be more severe, and in truth I think the author could’ve done a lot more with the entire storyline. Though there were times I simply couldn’t tear myself away from the pages, I was glad when it came to an end. Regardless of the content I wasn’t prepared for, and the fact that I feel the writing needs a round of clean-up editing, I would definitely read more of this author’s books, as I was fascinated and wholly engrossed by Jimmy and his doings. None of the characters are remotely likable, and I couldn’t understand why the townspeople wouldn’t be out searching frantically for the Sheriff’s daughter when she was the second girl who went missing in a matter of days. How Samantha could be pregnant with Jimmy’s baby when he never even had intercourse with her, is beyond me. Many such things not making a lick of sense, but if you have the stomach for it, “Jimmy”, at the very least, is an engaging read.
November 23, 2012
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Outwardly, Jimmy Hawthorn is just a regular high school student. Inwardly, however, something sinister is taking form.
Jimmy has always been fascinated with the idea of women being held immobile by hanging from their wrists. He's spent hours upon hours and dollars upon dollars to feed this addiction with movies and photos, but Jimmy has become bored with the fictional stimulation. This is when the decision is made; he's going to kidnap a female classmate and make his fantasy a reality.
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I decided to purchase this book because of my love for disturbing reads. I love a book that doesn't apologize; a book that leaves your jaw resting on the floor - and this one definitely did the job. It was crass, disturbing, and horrific.
Dislikes:
The editing was terrible. Not enough that it took away from my enjoyment, but enough to be irritating.
I wasn't very happy with the ending. I won't spoil the book, but the ending is so tragic and unexpected. I do appreciate the fact that the author took the road less traveled in terms of ending, though.
There was a lot of repetition in this book! Every time I turned a page, I thought maybe I hadn't and was re-reading the same thing I just read! This was probably the most annoying thing about the whole story. I probably would've bumped my star-rating up to four if it hadn't been so repetitious. Most of it was Jimmy's inner musings.
Likes:
Character development. As other reviewers have stated, the characters are developed very well. Jimmy was a character you could almost sympathize with even though he was sick in the head. This is a surprise, too, because Jimmy wasn't abused as a child; he wasn't mistreated save some bullies in school. He just saw a movie scene that tripped some wire in his brain and his curiosity turned into an all-consuming obsession. He felt remorse during his torture of the two girls. He even thought about letting them go. In the end, he was still a monster, and even then I felt some sympathy. Most of all, though, my heart went out to Alan (Jimmy's brother). Aside from the girls Jimmy held prisoner, Alan was hurt most by Jimmy's actions. It was tragic and heart-wrenching to read.
Another impressive thing about this story is how smoothly the plot plays out. All events happen in perfect tandem with each other. There aren't any lulls in the plot. The action is ever-present. The need to know more never wavered. I couldn't put this book down. I was completely engrossed and eager to learn the fate of all characters involved. The story was extremely engaging.
The horror aspect was very well done. The descriptive scenes in the fallout shelter were disturbing and cringe-worthy. It was like a car-wreck. You know it's terrible and sick to stare, but you just can't stop. My heartbeat sped up each time Jimmy would go back to the shelter. I worried this would finally be the moment he killed one of the girls, or was caught by someone. Malmborg gave us the perfect glimpse inside the mind of a disturbed teenager with no regard for human life. In the end, you never find out exactly why Jimmy was the way he was. Mental illness? Some sort of imbalance? It wasn't because of childhood abuse, we know that... anyway, I enjoyed the mystery.
Overall, Jimmy was a good read. It's not for the feint of heart. It is graphic and very very dark. DO NOT read this book if you can't handle disturbing tales. That being said, this is a fantastic story of obsession, sexual fetish, and how one person's actions can ruin the lives of countless others in a domino effect. The writing is descriptive and the story is a page-turner. Jimmy is a character you will be torn between feeling sorry for and hating. It's a tough read in the way of subject matter, but a wonderful one in the suspense department. I recommend this only if you enjoy dark, disturbing reads.
*This book is absolutely NOT for people under 18 years of age. It contains violence, sex, and very disturbing imagery. Go into this read with caution!*
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Book source: personal collection
Publisher: self-published
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