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A review by craigmatthews87
A Child Alone With Strangers by Philip Fracassi
5.0
I loved Gothic, thought Boys In The Valley was the best horror book of 2023, and A Child Alone With Strangers may just be the best of the three. 600-plus pages that fly by, with a basic premise that's along the lines of the Reservoir Dogs crew kidnapping Danny Torrance, but that hatches into something much more sinister.
A hefty read that has some wonderfully graphic descriptions, true spine-tingling terror, more than a few tear-jerking moments, and an evocative yet easy to read style—it all combines to feel like, dare I say it, classic era Stephen King. I smashed through the book in a three or four days, and spent my time away from the book wishing I could dive back into the world Fracassi has crafted with this. An experience I tried to savour every minute of, and didn't want to end.
A hefty read that has some wonderfully graphic descriptions, true spine-tingling terror, more than a few tear-jerking moments, and an evocative yet easy to read style—it all combines to feel like, dare I say it, classic era Stephen King. I smashed through the book in a three or four days, and spent my time away from the book wishing I could dive back into the world Fracassi has crafted with this. An experience I tried to savour every minute of, and didn't want to end.