Fangs for the Memories

Bloodhounds, Inc. #5

by Bill Myers

When a vampire torments the people of their town, Sean and his sister Melissa use their detective skills and depend on the help of God to deal with the problem

Genres: Christian Fiction, Mystery, Christian

128 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1999

About the author

Bill Myers was born into a Christian home, and although as a child he became bored with Christianity, he decided at the University of Washington quote, to "make God my boss." Ironically, at the University his worst subject was writing. He claims to have prayed, and said that he would be able to do anything for God, except write. Even so, he has become a prominent Christian writer, and has a large amount of successful books and films to his credit.

Reviews

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 1 out of 5]

What happens when you combine Spine Chillers Mysteries with Brainrot? You get this abomination. Beneath the guise of an average, more mystery focused kids’ horror series is an unadvertised-to-be Christian themed story that was a meandering mess. I have the slightest few positives to throw out there: the writing is at least decent, I enjoy the idea of the twist of the book, and there’s SOME good moments. But this is basically just a complete disaster. First off, Christianity and religion as a whole shouldn’t be shoved into kids’ horror books. It pisses me off here in a unique way as it isn’t even advertised as such, though evens out by not being as overbearing as it is in Spine Chillers. The glossolalic talk in this book was just annoying and jarring for this genre, though tbf this is a bit more juvenile compared to most kids horror (and we’ll get to that in a second), no matter what the retarded “ages 8-13” shit says on the back; that implies this is more mature than Goosebumps… no the fuck it isn’t. This book is not only a lot of padding, but a lot of actual fucking Brainrot. The humor here is pain and chaos humor, and it was almost unbearable at times, not to mention just bloating the book. And back to the padding: there’s useless stuff in here, like the Zanker House subplot being completely useless, the annoying interruptions from a pre-established virtual leprechaun character with their own romantic subplot (I am not even making this up), useless scenes and plot points, and so on and so forth. Half of this book felt like a waste of time—because it was. There’s a weird but seemingly big revelation with a pentagram that is never explained and only there to bring forth the climax of the story, the villains are lame af, the ending—whilst I get it’s an ongoing series—is just way too holly jolly. Oh, and the twist itself, whilst I like it conceptually and it wasn’t out of line with the story, it was (say it with me) predictable and nullifying. I think I’ve made my case…. Overall, 2/10. It’s not good, insert some rancid insult here. PlasmaMutts (har).