Sheri’s Reviews > The Beast of Brenton Woods > Status Update

Life has kept me from being able to tear through this story as I wanted to. It’s the type of book that ends every chapter with the reader saying “ok...just one more & then I’ve got to go!” I love it when that happens.

I could agree more with the above excerpt which I pulled from chapter 2, in the POV of Conway. In fact, OFF SEASON was brought up between another member of the HA group in our thread on Laymon’s THE CELLAR. We were discussing similarities between some of Ketchum & Laymon’s work & I brought up that amongst all of the supernatural threats in many books I love-human monsters can be scarier than anything I could imagine.

“Vampires, werewolves… he loved monsters–they knew about the night. He nourished his appreciation for the darker side of literature for hours every night. No less than two hours with a book prior to his drink on the porch and no less than another two hours when he came back in. Right now, he was nearing the end of Jack Ketchum’s OFF SEASON. It featured a different type of monster—man, the scariest of them all.”

So... I haven't read a horror story involving a werewolf since BLOOD AND RAIN. I'm flying through this one so far. I'm gonna try my best not to hold this book to any certain standards considering how much my last werewolf encounter kicked so much ass. Alright, let the good times roll! AAAAHHROOOOO!!!!

NEXT FULL MOON MAY 29th!!