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I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)

Barry Lyga

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Dec 17, 2014 Snowtulip rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Another book that I read only because of a challenge, and can't believe what I would have missed out on if I hadn't done the challenge!

I am not a big mystery/thriller person, I have a heebie geebie approach to anything related to serial killers (I stay far away), but Jazz Dent has captured me with his story. I was both appalled and heart broken with his back-story and the struggles he is having in discovering who he is. This being a YA book, probably helped me in moving forward with reading this ...more

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Nov 04, 2012 mstan rated it liked it

Shelves: for-young-adults-or-children, american, src-winter-2012-13

The premise of this book would attract most reluctant young (and not-so-young) readers: it's narrated from the perspective of the son of a convicted serial killer. Jasper ("Jazz") Dent tries to tell himself he doesn't have his father's predilection for cruelty, torture and murder, and for the most part, he does a pretty good job of fitting into society. But when a series of murder takes place in his town, he starts to question himself more, while at the same time trying to seek some form of abso ...more

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