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A review by bexinthecity05
Psycho II by Robert Bloch
2.0
Wow - I'm not sure what to say about this book.
First of all it started out quite good (minus the dead nun stuff) and I actually quite liked the idea of Norman taking revenge on Sam and Lila Loomis and the movie set but then it quickly sloped into a shit show. There were more twists and turns that seemed to serve a 'Who-dunnit' kind of outfit rather than the psychological thriller that the first book was. I think the whole storyline of Santo was totally unneeded and had that not been in there and the final reveal was as it was it would have been a 3-star book for me. I don't get why it was needed to have so many twists. The first book relied on one major plot twist which is mirrored here in the last 10 or so pages (and rather well done I think - besides the sketchy motives) but I thought I was reading a book written by two authors at some points.
Robert Bloch does thriller better than he does Agatha Christie mystery in my opinion.
First of all it started out quite good (minus the dead nun stuff) and I actually quite liked the idea of Norman taking revenge on Sam and Lila Loomis and the movie set but then it quickly sloped into a shit show. There were more twists and turns that seemed to serve a 'Who-dunnit' kind of outfit rather than the psychological thriller that the first book was. I think the whole storyline of Santo was totally unneeded and had that not been in there and the final reveal was as it was it would have been a 3-star book for me. I don't get why it was needed to have so many twists. The first book relied on one major plot twist which is mirrored here in the last 10 or so pages (and rather well done I think - besides the sketchy motives) but I thought I was reading a book written by two authors at some points.
Robert Bloch does thriller better than he does Agatha Christie mystery in my opinion.