 Hello everybody, E here welcome back to another book review before we jump into this I want to wish a very happy book birthday to the book We're gonna be reviewing today, and that is the night will find us by Matthew Lyons my friend Amina Told me to read this one. She hit me up on Twitter and said E you got to check this one out Creep the hell out of me, and then she put me in contact with Turner Publishing and the author Matthew Lyons And they sent me a book. So this one This one right off the bat. It's turbocharged from the beginning the very first scene Draws you in and then there's I think there's two two chapters before things really kick off Less than I don't I don't know I want to say less than 20 pages, but that could be wrong I want to say yeah, yeah chapter 2 starts at page 23. Is that what I saw? I don't know hang on. Let me check for sure. No chapter 2 starts at page 21 And it is a race to the finish from that point the pacing in this book is Fantastic, what are the three things that I look for in horror if you're a fan of the channel You know it's dread it's pacing and it's really well drawn characters Those three things have to be in a horror story for me to pay attention whatsoever So right off the jump the pacing was on point Next the characters you guys know how bad I am with character names, but I can tell you right now all of these characters There's Adam. There's Chloe. There's Josh. There's Nate. There's Mickey and there's Parker I'm pretty sure that was an alphabetical order to so yay me anyways that these six characters It everything kind of happens at once this book took me off guard with the with where it went to because I'm thinking Okay, he's trying to build tension with these characters and show that we're gonna have maybe a the thing kind of thing or the Anxiety and the paranoia or whatever, you know Who's who's who who's the killer that kind of thing because I didn't read the back of the book? I'm gonna tell you right now I don't want you to read the back of the book either the description actually has a spoiler I feel it's a spoiler The description actually has a spoiler in it So stay away from the description go into this book completely blind the whole reason I read this was because Amina said it was it was fantastic She was not wrong whatsoever So the second one is the characters I knew every six characters in a very short period of time in the very first chapter I could tell the difference between each and every character that Alone is impressive But to then throw them in the situation that you that that you have that quickly and Continue the character development off to the side in the background so that you get to know these characters You may not like them, but to get to know these characters off to the side I love that kind of character development the not overt character development now with a Going back to you may not you might not like them This is almost like a Scott Smith's the ruins kind of vibe the books have nothing to do with each other This isn't the forest coming alive to well, I don't I don't want to give any I don't want to give any spoilers but I don't also don't want to get anything wrong, so let me stop there, but uh, this this isn't about This isn't about the same thing that the ruins is about we're not talking about creepy vines that kind of thing But with with this one you're dealing with characters that you may not like that you end up liking Toward the end and one has an irredeemable sin from the jump and he's then lion still manages to Manage to bring me in and it's like okay. This guy isn't too bad I kind of see where he was coming from even though what he did was Horrible now the very last thing is the dread the dread kicks off Like I said right off the bat so again the three things pacing character development and the dread Everything was on point with this one and I can find no fault whatsoever with it if I'm going to criticize it at all I Think maybe the character of Josh could have used a little bit more just a little bit Just a teeny tiny bit But I don't even think that I don't think that would have affected I don't think that would have made me love it anymore had I got more of Josh There there are certain characters in the book that you know exactly what their purpose is and they go in there But nobody is the same by the end of the book This this feels like right off the bat that it's going to be your typical Slasher and because it says on the back of it I'm going to go ahead and throw this out there for you. This is a super natural story There's it's like a Stephen King book you have your human horror and you have your supernatural horror You have both of those things So don't I don't want to set it up anybody's expectations thinking that they're going in for a legit slasher And then get thrown that curveball That would be the only spoiler that I'm going to go into is that but only because it says in this Supernatural thriller it says it on the back. Once again, don't read the description. I am really really impressed I don't know. Let's see here Matthew Lyons is the author of dozens of short stories with his work appearing in the 2018 edition of best American horse horse. No, sorry, best American short stories not horror edited by Roxanne gay and more Born and raised in Colorado who lives with his wife and their cat So if I'm reading that correctly, this is his debut novel. I'm impressed. I If I had read this Not knowing that it was a debut. I wouldn't have thought it was a debut I know that's kind of cliche, but he brings chops to the to the plate It's chops. No, no, okay Anyways, this this book is a lot of fun. I really want to express that There are some very dark and disturbing scenes and there is a lot of dread You don't know who's gonna survive You don't know who's gonna make it. You don't know how if they're gonna be intact when they make it out You don't know if anybody's gonna make it out. There's there was two times and I was like, okay The the people that are left are all dead Lyons has a true flair for the not really dramatic but for for I Want to say it like metaphor and simile. There's a lot of stuff in here that he you know He compares to other things using other things and some of them were absolutely brilliant. I thought The so come for the writing the pacing the dread the character them all that stuff But definitely read this one if you want a really fun Horror story set in the woods about a group of teenagers. That's where this book shines It takes this common trope kind of turns it on its head And there's well, no, I'm not gonna say that I almost gave away the part that I don't want to give away on the back of the book But anyways, did you get a chance to read or are you watching this one late? And you have already picked it up and read it. Have you read the night? We'll find us by Matthew the lions if you have Please let me know what you thought of it down there in the doobly-doo This is um on probably my top five for the horror for horror this year up there with Scott What's his what's his name? Scott Carson's to chill Um, there's there's a couple other ones, but it's easily in my top five for for horror that takes something overdone And does something completely new with it something engaging with it But have you read it? Please let me know If you loved it if you hated it tell me why you loved it Tell me why you hated it so that we can have a discussion But until next time I have been e you have been you this has been another book review I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye