Review: Maddeningly Twisted
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 16, 2014
The first chapter of the book introduces the characters – a whole lot of them. Although author A.A. Pencil created quite an ensemble, it’s a struggle to remember them all (but this is more of a reader’s shortcoming rather than a story flaw).It’s a bit of a slow start, but the personality clashes and banters are enough to keep my interest. It’s not established who the core characters are so you’d be in the dark about 90% of the time, which means you’re speculating most of the time (a good thing!).What started as shallow bickerings and embarrassing trips down memory lane, quickly turned into a gruesome murder spree from an unknown assailant. And this is where it gets maddeningly twisted. It’s reminiscent of slasher films of decades past,  but more violent and bizarre.What’s really good about this book is that you will never get close to figuring “it” out – which really messes you up a little bit.The events that lead up to the final scene cleverly tie up loose ends, but it was rather lengthy that it almost loses the momentum it had going.The ending is quite unexpected and  destroys all my theories.You might need therapy after reading.