Bugboy

by Ryan C. Thomas

Twenty-five-year-old Wilson has autism. He likes bugs and can tell you everything about every species he sees. When the people nearest and dearest to him start getting murdered, Rhode Island detectives Artie Furtado and Dick Cook suspect there might be more to Wilson than meets the eye. To find out the truth they’ll have to dig into his past, and his future. Is he killing people? Or is there something far more nefarious at work?An all new horror mystery novel from the author of The Summer I Died, and Hissers!"Ryan C. Thomas' writing is sickeningly twisted!" - gorefiend.com

Genres: Horror

324 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2013

About the author

I am the author of the novels The Summer I Died, Ratings Game, Born to Bleed, Salticidae, Undead World of Oz, Hissers and more. I hope to learn a lot from the readers on this site, and get some good book recs in the process. Thanks!

Reviews

[Kimberly · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 *
Review to come.

[Addy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow. I just don't know where to start. Great beginning and middle parts of the book but what happened to the ending? Can't help but feel a little jipped. Ryan had me going! Great plot, interesting characters...I mean, bugs aren't my thing, but he definitely made it mysterious. In the end, I knew I'd be a little disappointed because let's face it, unless bugs are your thing I really don't think they make a good horror story, well neither does fog but Herbert made it work. Anyway, I think Ryan needs to go back to what he's good at writing and thats more extreme horror. Still looking forward to the next installment of his Roger series though:) 3 stars for me.

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5*

[Justin · Rating 2 out of 5]

So, I like to write a review and then read other reviews. With this one I decided to just do a quick cut and past review of my final thoughts that I posted in a group read that I did and make it a spoilers only review but after seeing that it only has 3 other reviews (two from others in my group that read it with me) I have decided to write out a longer spoiler free review that will give people a better idea of what they are getting into if there is anyone out there reading reviews to decide if they want to purchase this book. It has good characters and as always with Ryan C. Thomas it is well written. The problem is that it blends genres in a way that don't really work. The horror aspects of the book are so rediculous that the only way they can really be taken serious would be in a YA novel, which is kind of what it feels like while reading except for a few bits of nastier stuff that make sure it stays in the adult category. It is equal parts detective/mystery as it is horror and then the ending is just pure sci-fi. It didn't work for me.


When we found out it was about a giant killer mosquito it just seemed to ridiculous to take serious as a horror novel, then the part about his past and neighbor kind of felt like his attempt to keep it in the adult horror category, but the ending was pure sci-fi. I think he should have cut some of the nastier stuff from the past and turned it into a YA sci-fi novel.

[Vicki Willis · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was mixed for me. It started out good. I don't know what happened. I wanted to read to the end and find out what happened, but something was lacking for me. Maybe I am just not into giant alien insects taking over the world.

[Bob · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyable creepfest involving a mentally challenged young man who abused during his childhood has developed the ability to communicate with insects. Mysterious murders and inter dimensional creatures abound in this horror thriller. Highly recommended.

[Corben · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book. It has an old style Sci-Fi movie vibe going on. Ryan Thomas keeps the tension going throughout the story - if I put the book down for a bit I soon found myself drawn back to it. Man, I hate bugs and I’m never going to trust one ever again after reading this book.

The novel scores highly on plot, dialogue and characters. The balance between narration and dialogue is very good and the structure of the book is well thought out. And there’s plenty of humour too, through the police detectives’ dialogue which is the perfect foil for the horror scenes. There’s a fair amount of buggy related horror which works well with the Sci-Fi elements.

I like the characters. I think Wilson, Artie and Sasha work very well. In particular Wilson (Bugboy) has some very interesting and unexpected layers to his personality.

The ending isn’t what I was expecting. That’s a good thing. I like it when I can’t guess the ending.

This was my first Ryan Thomas book and I shall now go in search of the next.