Book Review: The Sorrow King by Andersen Prunty

The Sorrow King by Andersen Prunty

My rating: 4 of 5 stars [image error]

REVIEW:

What if the scariest thing you had to face was your own mind? Do you think that you would be able to fight through the madness, to save a town full of people, which have fallen under a sadistic spell? What if a monster of your imagination sprang to life?

I was a little hesitant when I read the synopsis to The Sorrow King. It didn't look like something that I could fall into at first glance, but after reading a few reviews, I thought I would give it a shot since it was only $0.99 on Kindle. I'm glad I took the risk. It had all of the four "M"s that I look for in a story. Monsters, Murder, Madness, and Mayhem.

The dialog was the best part. The dark and demented humor between Conner and Steven, it felt like conversations that my friends and I have. My only complaint would be that I would get lost in the dialog, and wasn't quite sure who was saying what lines. It's mostly my fault though, and not the author. Ninety percent of my reading is done in a break room of 30 plus people, bustling through vending machines, talking, laughing, and a television blaring in the back ground. So sometimes I get distracted.

This was a good read. It makes you think of the scary things that you can create, and the things you are capable of doing, not only to yourself, but to others around you.

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ABOUT THE BOOK:

The papers call it "The Suicide Virus." The teenagers of Gethsemane, Ohio, are killing themselves at an alarming rate. 

Steven Wrigley is trying to survive his senior year of high school, still reeling from the death of his mother and adjusting to life with his father. Along the way, he meets a girl who becomes another kind of obsession: Elise Devon. 

Elise's secrets keep her distanced from everyone. She has a special place she calls the Obscura. She goes there when she is depressed or angry. The Obscura makes her feel like nothing she's ever felt before. When she loses herself to the Obscura, she fears she also gives herself to something much darker, something much more powerful. Something calling itself the Sorrow King. 

Who is the Sorrow King? 

He is carved from wood and bone. 

He smells like wax, dead leaves, and memories. 

He travels by moonlight and drinks the sorrow of others. 

Can love exact vengeance on a monster made from madness, depression, and misery? Or will the Sorrow King bleed the town dry before satiating himself and moving on

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