Review: Like the Magician form of Freddiew Krueger
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 7, 2014
Traumatized 12 year olds hide a secret as a town railroads a citizen to jail. It's now over twenty years later, and the kids are closer to forty than thirty, and all together again when Cosmo-X the Magician maniac decides to take on the town for a bit of revenge. Boy, do the bodies stack up in creative ways. I enjoyed guessing what new trick was coming next.This story has great characters, good pacing, and an interesting premise. I enjoyed reading this book. These characters all have issues left over from the preteen trauma, and others in the town were changed by it in different ways, even the police chief, who was a detective at that time, and believed Cosmo-X to be innocent.Like Stephen King's. IT, the traumatized kids, now adults must help try and save the town and themselves, unlike IT, their monster is completely human just basically insane after hellish treatment in prison and bent on payback like Freddie for all those people who caused bad things to happen to him. And so the fun begins...The downside was that the killer was almost superhuman - nobody could really stop him, find him or apprehend him. He seems to be very strong physically for someone locked in a metal ward. There were also few too many coincidences in the story to be credible. Can't go into details because they are all spoilers.In the whole scheme of things, these are minor complaints, and cost a star. Don't get me wrong, this is still a good story. The ending had to be what it was. You will see what I mean when you read it. No cliffhanger, so thank you for that.If you are looking for a dyed in the wool slasher type horror story with panache, then this is your book. Think of Freddie without the burns in magicians tuxedos cape doing illusions like sawing a lady in half. Did he just do that for real? Is that blood? Read the book and find out.