 This review has been a long time coming because of my internet so before we even start with the video I want to apologize to the author. He sent me the book for review and I'm just now getting this review shot and uploaded so my apologies to him. Thank you so much for the review copy on with the review. Hello everybody! E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we are talking about Michael Brent Colling's Stranger Still. The first thing that I want to talk about with this book is something I had no idea when I signed up for an ARC the author approached me and said hey look you know I wear big boy pants I want you to review my stuff be brutally honest and I like to cut of his jib so I said yes. I do not take review requests normally but he did such a good job approaching me that I was honored to take the book. Honored to try to read the book. But yeah this one follows like I was saying before we even get started this is a sequel or a continuation to his book Stranger from what I've read from other reviews I had no idea and the reason why I'm bringing this up at the beginning of the review is because I want to let you guys know that so you grab that one first in case you don't watch the entire video. The problem with that is and the reason why I knocked off a star is I had no idea the other book even existed. That's not a huge issue but in this one I felt like I was missing something. Whether or not I was or not I felt like I was missing something. So that is my one criticism but I went back and I read other reviews and other people were saying this was a continuation of his book Stranger and I will be going back and checking that one out. A message to the author I am now a fan of your work so I will be checking out as much as I possibly can no need to send me any more ARCs I want to support you I will buy the rest of them. So this one right off the bat right off the jump you meet Legion who has some quirks. The back and forth between Legion and his well not Legion but I'll call it his brothers I'm trying not to spoil anything but the back and forth between Legion and his brothers is a lot of fun if a might repetitive you get to the point where it's like okay we understand who they are just cut it back and around that time what I mean by cut it back is that he gives like this a bigger name than there should be I don't want to spoil anything for you because I want you to read it for yourself but then he chops it down to just a one word and the story flows much much better after that point the brutality and the violence is on point there were several times in this book your boy cringed and I know all you guys are out there cringing right now because I said your boy but you'll be all right at least there isn't a raid shadow legends add on this video so much okay so but this one is it it's just a lot of fun I don't I don't know how else to put it um is it great literature no is it a shit ton of fun yes it is it is but it is well above like schlocky B horror content you do have that content but you also have really well-developed characters there are two that are very very similar that kind of caught me off guard because well I didn't really confuse them but it was but then it was explained why they are like that like I don't think this too much of a spoiler but there's two characters in this book who both named their guns after certain figures those figures are similar similar and it almost caused me to roll my eyes but then he explains it and every time that I felt like I was reading something where I didn't trust the author the author would come up and I'm calling the author because I don't know whether or not to call him Michael or Michael Brent and Michael Brent is a mouthful so here we are but the author sorry I screw up everybody's names but with this I I trust it I came to trust him and the reason why I'm going to be going through his entire back catalog is because now I trust him the book is very very well edited is very clean I'm not sure if it is an independent it seems to be an independent release it might not be I apologize for not researching that beforehand I'm trying to shoot a bunch of these videos all at one time so my apologies but this one the character development like I said was on point there there came a time when I didn't like anybody in the book and then I started liking certain ones again I feel like that was intended by by the by the author I do feel it was intended I think the only person that I actually liked was the female lead I finished this one ages ago it's been months since I finished the book and I don't remember character names I apologize I've already listened to and read another 20 30 books since then but this it's a lot of fun I honestly don't know how is to put that the bonsai tree is a plus you'll know what I'm talking about when you read the book I thought that in fact his characters reminded me a lot of Michael not Michael of Robert McCammon in in that in their quirks there's one character in here especially that reminded me of the main not the main character but the character in gone south the one with the secret under his shirt I don't want to get too far into it but it reminded me of Robert McCammon it's not as over I don't want to say overwritten it's not as wordy as a McCammon but it definitely the characters definitely felt very McCammon ish and I'd like to know Michael Brent Michael what what is he an inspiration of yours I know you're gonna watch this is he an inspiration I just want to know but anyways this comes highly recommended for me maybe not my highest recommendation but if you're looking for fun horror this this is a book for you I once again I just want to make sure you guys know that I got the book for free but that did not color my my review at all there's been numerous books I've gotten for free that I've utterly trounced and destroyed here on the channel I hope that lends some I hope that gives you guys some kind of trust in me but anyways this one four stars easy have you read this yeah you plan to read it let me know whether or not you liked it or not down there in the doobly-doo if you did like it let me know why if you didn't like it let me know why you didn't like it so we can have a discussion but until next time I have been E you've been you this been another book review I'll talk to you guys later bye