 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. We're staying with the Halloween theme this time and I am reviewing Halloween Fiend by CV Hunt. I almost forgot the title of the book there for a second. This one has been on my TBR ever since it was released. I'm trying to collect all of the out-of-print and in-print Grindhouse books. So I will be reading much more of CV Hunt and Anderson Prunty. They both, I think they co-own both that and Adel Press ATL-ATL. Both of those presses they work together with so they co-own. So I'll be reading much more CV Hunt here in the future. I've heard nothing but good stuff about this one. In fact, even after I finished it when looking up reviews, reviews are majority positive and I think it deserves it. This one is a very unique story. It is about a guy named Barry who lives with his jerk of a father. His mother is out of the picture just recently though and Barry lives in this town where there's this creature literally called Halloween. Now it's not the personification of Halloween, they just call it Halloween and this book just happens to take place during Halloween, but this creature comes out every single night. At least that's what I got from it. They have to leave sacrifices of other kinds of stuff. I really enjoyed this book especially because at the toward the beginning there was a lot of really creepy shit with looking in windows, noises, whispers. There was a lot of really cool stuff and I thought the creature known as Halloween was very well done. It's not over described. There are certain attributes that Hunt will give you and you'll be able to build off of that, but she never jumps full into this is exactly what the creature looks like. Now if you want to you can look at the cover which is actually gorgeous. You can look at the cover but let me just put this if nothing else. I mean they publish great books but Grindhouse does fantastic cover art. Eye candy galore. So definitely check them out. I'll try and leave a link down there in the doobly-doo to both presses Grindhouse and Addle, Addle. If I'm getting that wrong the Addle, Addle just let me know how to pronounce it. I don't know. Anyways so back to the book. The cover is absolutely gorgeous and if you want to go off that I feel like you can go off that to try and build this monster in your head. There is a carnival section in here. I'm a huge huge fan of carnival circus theme parks that kind of thing. It's very small but you know there's a mention in there. There's a lottery type deal that's going on that almost like Shirley Jackson's the lottery you know that kind of thing. I haven't read Hunger Games but when I was describing it to my wife she said it sounded kind of like Hunger Games. It's probably not it because I think that's a competition and this is more of a sacrifice thing. Maybe the lottery is wrong too. I'm not sure I've ever read the lottery either. But it's a lottery to pick who is going to be sacrificed to the creature. I really enjoyed the character thoughts being in Barry's mind. I really enjoyed that aspect. The characters are well done. I think Barry and the father are really the only two that you really get a good feel for. The other characters not that they're toss off or cardboard or anything like that. It's just the focus here is Barry and up to a certain point his father and I thought that was really well done. I like the dynamic dynamic of father and son that don't get along. I've always enjoyed that and this is one of those stories. Now past a certain point the action and the creepiness did die down but not to the detriment of the story. The beginning of it goes so well and you get to know Barry and his father and these other characters that pop up toward the end of the book. You get to know them and you just like being around them. You enjoy it. Whereas I was complaining in the last review the last book I won't mention it here that it didn't feel like Halloween. This one doesn't really feel like it could happen any day other than Halloween but the thing is that there wasn't annoying writing like the last one that I reviewed. There wasn't anything annoying about it at all and it might be a minor complaint. It is a minor complaint here that there wasn't more Halloween feel to it since it's called Halloween Halloween themed. I keep on wanting to say friend. But it didn't bother me this time and I think that's just a testament to how this book is so much better than the last one that I reviewed. It just comes down to whether or not the author can engage me and whether or not the author annoys me and the last author annoyed me. See The Hunt did not. I'm going to give this one four stars. The only reason I'm taking off that one is because it did kind of die down after the spookiness kind of wore off and the end I understand why the end had to be the end but there was a very, very silly and it's probably intentional but it was a little sillier than I was expecting. If you read it you'll know what I'm talking about. I think it's kind of obvious once you get to it. It is kind of on the silly side but I still enjoyed it but I'm going to give it four stars because I didn't love it. You know I didn't fawn over it. But that first section those creepy parts are absolutely amazing. But if you read Halloween themed if you have let me know down there in the doobly-doo what you thought of it, whether or not you liked it, whether or not you hated it. If you liked it or hated it with either one just tell me why you liked it or hated it so we can have a discussion. But until next time I have been E, you have been U. This has been another Book Review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye!