 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another episode of 31 days of Halloween. I think this is the longest I've ever been able to continue a series like this So two weeks give me some love down there in the doobly-doo. I have another I Almost have all the videos done for this month, and I'm thinking about doing Sunday cinema tonight when this video goes live at 7 p.m If this is if this goes up on Sunday I hope I put it up on Sunday, but at 7 p.m. We're gonna be watching the people under the stairs I won't be live-streaming the movie only me watching the movie. It's free on Peacock So if you'd like to join me stop on by but today we are talking about The what was sorry not the anything Benny Rose the cannibal king by Haley Piper and yes, this channel is becoming a bit of a Haley Piper fanboy forum, and I have no problem with that whatsoever Because again if you're here just to find out what I thought about the book whether I liked it And you want to go read it for yourself the I call it for the TLBW too long didn't watch I absolutely adored this book, and I'm about to tell you why so Haley Piper was kind enough to send me review copies of all of her work, and this is another one I was gonna wait until next month to do another one of her books because I already did one this month But I just I wanted it and it's a Halloween story. It's Halloween theme here. Let me put this up Anyways, so the story revolves around a group of friends I'm not gonna remember all of their names, but the main three that I do remember is Jesse Desiree and oh, I just blinked on the other one. What was the other one? Man, I'm kicking myself because I really like this character and now our current remember is not Sierra I do remember Sierra though. I was there a Paul I believe there was a Paul there was a third there was a third girl that I wanted to remember and I just went completely blank But they're going out Gabriel. I'm sorry Gabriel is a whole whole point of the story so Gabriel is new to town and Desiree and Sierra and Jesse are gonna play a prank on her using her Desiree's boyfriend. I can't remember which is where it was very very the boyfriend was there a very short period of time But they're gonna use him to pull a prank a Benny Rose themed prank And scare Gabriel because it's all folklore, right? Benny Rose doesn't actually exist What I really loved about this one is it's kind of like what I really enjoyed about Adam says our clown in the cornfield is That they're you know, there's friend of the clown and that one and this one Benny Rose is all over the place You know, especially during Halloween his pictures up on glass storefronts. He's all over the place You know, and I think stuff like that is really cool. I like it when a town, you know, like Roswell, New Mexico They've really embraced, you know, UFO culture that that kind of thing. I really enjoy that But anyways, so I don't want to give too much away, but Benny Rose is of course real And there there's some folklore behind Him burning down a hospital to cover up murders or so on and so forth But the the twist at the end regarding that is so magnificently done. I did not so throughout the entire book I was thinking well, this is pretty simple for a Haley Piper book I mean, there's got to be something special here and it was the ending I'm talking about the the actual real folklore the real story behind Benny Rose and The way they the way the the the the final girl status how they achieve the final girl status Too many spoilers II too many spoilers. Anyways, there's I've never seen anything like this I've never seen anything like the ending of this book. In fact, I was reading this one with my buddy Brad Proctor He's a youtuber also has a fantastic YouTube channel book to channel whatever you want to call it I read this one with him. We both agree This one should be a movie and he mentioned the ending of this one being a bit like the descent I don't think that's the spoiler but only to a certain point. I get where he's coming from but this one But it is it is disgusting. It is brutal. It is almost to the point funny I don't want to say that it was silly, but it was like hell fuck. Yeah I was laughing and cheering at the end But because Benny had put this group of friends through so much hell by the end of it that I was just like There needs to be some some comeuppance. There's needs to be some, you know, some gnarly, you know Retribution and goddamn there was Haley if you watch this Haley tends to watch these videos Bravo But here at the end I want to make note of something truly truly special This story at its heart and I said this on Twitter earlier today This story at its heart is a dissection of storytelling and the power of embellishment in folklore. I I Can't hard it is so well done to to be on the surface again all of Haley stuff and her catalog is completely Eclectic, there's always something Special there's that one special thing that brings this from like, you know, maybe something that might be three or four Otherwise if someone else had written it, but Haley comes along and she throws this curveball There's always something special about her work. She's done bizarro tentacle monster stuff vagina dentata She's done that. She's done a very very Clyde Barker cosmic hoarish underground thing with the worm and his kings the first one I thought about was queen of teeth I've already reviewed it on the channel this month actually and this one is it seems on the surface It seems so simple like you just your typical monster slasher your I don't want to say supernatural, but It is, you know, it's it's more of a later Jason movie kind of thing than it is, you know, like a First Halloween movie kind of thing. It's not it's not rooted in real life whatsoever is what I'm getting at With It's I really wish fuck it. I'm gonna do a spoiler section All right So if you don't you should have already clicked away and went and bought this and read it for yourself If you haven't read it so spoilers in three two one Spoilers, okay So Benny Rose did not cause the fire at the hospital Benny Rose was trapped with the with five kids And they ate each other and then he's coming back, you know every Halloween or I'm sure he's every Halloween They mentioned how every time there's solstice or equinox or whatever the veil is thin between the worlds But Benny Rose in particular only comes back on Halloween But that's where the story came from Everybody thinks that Benny Rose was a cannibal before the hospital But what made him the cannibal is getting trapped inside of the hospital So there's it was such a cool twist. I got I got goosebumps right now just talking about it It was such a cool twist that you see this but then at the end the very last couple of pages with Haley talking about the three sisters And just the lore that has carried on after they defeat Benny Rose man and them killing him with their own teeth them eating him But you you've never seen anything quite I haven't anyways, I won't say you I won't put that on you you the the audience or whatever you want to call you guys, but uh the It's I've never seen anything like it and it was so brutal because just touching his skin will burn you So they had to they had to go through immense trauma and physical agony to kill this thing And the death was so well everything was so well done It was so earned everything in here is fantastic because like I said on surface level It doesn't seem like anything more than a slasher and then you get all this wonderful Goodness at the end Haley if you if you're watching still watching if you even watch thank you It's a fantastic Halloween horror novel and I will probably so it's so short. It's 150 pages I'll probably read it every single year because I do the same thing with Ray Bradbury's the Halloween tree This will become a staple of my Halloween reading. I know it will But have you guys read Benny Rose the cannibal king by Haley Piper? What did you think about it? Did you love it? Did you hate it? Did you feel mad about it? If you felt any of those things explain yourself in detail so that we can have a discussion But until next time I have any you've been you this has been another episode of 31 days of Halloween I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye