Daniel Kraus, the co-author of The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro, presents a Halloween story featuring a disturbed youngster planning on planting razor blades and poison in trick-or-treat candy in order to punish the community that has turned him into an outcast. Much of this revenge story is narrated by a street-wise kid named Jody. Jody innocently relates horrific details of the life poor kids are forced to endure. At its core, Blood Sugar weaves tales of survival and panic and humor into a novel with the impact of a punch in the mouth. I’m a big fan of Paul Mann’s classic cover! GRADE: B+
It’s Halloween Week, folks!
We’ll be missing Halloween this year (not that anyone comes around here any more), as well as the “Fall back” changing of the clocks and the NYC Marathon this year.
Jeff, we have our good neighbors passing out candy for us on Halloween. It’s very early, but the weather-guessers are predicting wind and rain for Halloween here.
Mark Silber gave this a good review, and it seems you liked it, but it’s a definite NO for me.
Rick, Mark Silber and I share similar tastes. Of course, your tastes and my tastes occasionally overlap: I ordered The Complete Thorndyke and they just arrived. Given that the price of the hardcovers was just a few dollars more than the paperbacks, why didn’t you go with the hardcovers? I did.
Since I’ve been happy with the MX Sherlock Holmes softcovers, I just stuck with that.
Looks like the hardbacks are $44 and the paperbacks are $29. That’s more than “a few dollars” more.
Jeff, I got VOLUME 1 on AMAZON in hardcover for $36.30. I got VOLUME 2 for $29.67. The paperback editions were $28.95 each.
Just out with Kathe Koja who recommended this to me. Not sure it is my kind of book though.
Patti, there’s a blurb on BLOOD SUGAR that says: “I never miss a book by the remarkable Daniel Kraus, and BLOOD SUGAR exceeds all expectations. A Stephen King tale told by a pidgin Artful Dodger. It’s a twisted little miracle with a sneaking, beating heart.” Megan Abbott wrote that!