lanternsjourney's review
2.0
1.5/5
Peter and Mary meet in a Psych class and are bound together by fate when they're hunted by two different people on the same night. In Sheep's Skin takes you on a wild ride of werewolves and a strange cult.
The story is very unique, but many typos and bumpy dialogue took me out of it a bit. I also felt the beginning was stronger than the end, which left me with more questions than answers.
Peter and Mary meet in a Psych class and are bound together by fate when they're hunted by two different people on the same night. In Sheep's Skin takes you on a wild ride of werewolves and a strange cult.
The story is very unique, but many typos and bumpy dialogue took me out of it a bit. I also felt the beginning was stronger than the end, which left me with more questions than answers.
trish204's review
4.0
My very first story by this author and it was pretty good.
Meet Peter and Mary. Both from disfunctional families. Both in a beginner's class for psychology. Both working at the same project for said psychology class. Both not fully right in the head. Both sitting in a beat-down diner. Only instead of just pulling their shitty routine with the guests, there is suddenly a killer in there with them. And as if that wasn't enough, there is also what can only be a werewolf stalking them as well (or at least one of them).
From the diner to a house in the woods, to a rooftop Halloween party, to a psychiatric hospital and many other places (also including a slaughterhouse and some VERY disturbing memories), we went to many places.
The problem? It's not as "easy" as putting a silver bullet into the werewolf's heart and killing the killer before he can kill first. Oh no.
The action scenes in this book, the chases and killing sprees, the blood and gore - it was all delicious. Sadly, there were a few scenes too many (or the scenes were too long) where we have to spend time with the protagonists, often in their seriously fucked up heads. The psychology was brilliantly researched and reproduced here in a very realistic way (especially the co-dependency stuff), but it was just not my cuppa. And compared to the amount of body horror, it left me feeling slightly disappointed.
...
Until the next breathtaking action scene.
And that is why I consider this "only" pretty good (though, really, this is still a fantastic Spooktober read). Maybe it's because I actually like and enjoy cheap b-movie horror, which I didn't get too much of here. Maybe it's because there was too much mental-health horror in this and not enough body horror and I just didn't like the characters - but not in a way that made me gleefully cackle "die, you fuckers!". *lol*
Still, a very good book with a brilliantly creepy atmosphere and definitely one of its kind so I'm very glad the author generously gave me a copy.
Meet Peter and Mary. Both from disfunctional families. Both in a beginner's class for psychology. Both working at the same project for said psychology class. Both not fully right in the head. Both sitting in a beat-down diner. Only instead of just pulling their shitty routine with the guests, there is suddenly a killer in there with them. And as if that wasn't enough, there is also what can only be a werewolf stalking them as well (or at least one of them).
From the diner to a house in the woods, to a rooftop Halloween party, to a psychiatric hospital and many other places (also including a slaughterhouse and some VERY disturbing memories), we went to many places.
The problem? It's not as "easy" as putting a silver bullet into the werewolf's heart and killing the killer before he can kill first. Oh no.
The action scenes in this book, the chases and killing sprees, the blood and gore - it was all delicious. Sadly, there were a few scenes too many (or the scenes were too long) where we have to spend time with the protagonists, often in their seriously fucked up heads. The psychology was brilliantly researched and reproduced here in a very realistic way (especially the co-dependency stuff), but it was just not my cuppa. And compared to the amount of body horror, it left me feeling slightly disappointed.
...
Until the next breathtaking action scene.
And that is why I consider this "only" pretty good (though, really, this is still a fantastic Spooktober read). Maybe it's because I actually like and enjoy cheap b-movie horror, which I didn't get too much of here. Maybe it's because there was too much mental-health horror in this and not enough body horror and I just didn't like the characters - but not in a way that made me gleefully cackle "die, you fuckers!". *lol*
Still, a very good book with a brilliantly creepy atmosphere and definitely one of its kind so I'm very glad the author generously gave me a copy.
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