Review: Story of my dreams..or nightmares
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2011
I had just received my kindle last year when I was looking through the list of free downloads and came across this short story. Being a horror fan, the title intrigued me. I clicked to read the blurb and thought I hit the jackpot. A perfect horror tale: what happens when one psycho serial killer picks up another psycho serial killer hitchhiking? Of course, I had to know.This little story was an experiment by two authors, Blake Crouch and Jack Kilborn AKA J.A. Konrath. They decided to write this in 3 parts. Kilborn wrote part 1, Crouch wrote part 2 and they both collaborated on part 3 via e-mail. What we are left with is an edge of your seat slasher story that seems perfect to be made into a movie (which I now heard it has been optioned for).The first part sets up the story of psycho #1, the second sets up psycho #2 and of course, #3 is where they meet for a showdown. What happens is a race to see who will outsmart who and who will walk away from it alive. I only was left wishing there was much more to the story as it was just too short to have any real character developement.Now Kilborn and Crouch have expanded the story to Serial: Uncut, which is supposed to be the full length novel. But they they came out with more. Killers. Then Killers: Uncut . Then Birds of Prey, Truck Stop, Bad Girl. Each one saying it was the "must read backstory" or "the complete story" . Then came Serial Killers: uncut. This is supposed to be the REAL complete novel. I hope so.  Honestly, I kinda felt like I was being set up to keep buying more downloads. Luckily, they have been offering them free on amazon off and on and I think I actually got the whole "epic" as they refer to it. The idea for this is a great one, but I wish they would have just made it in its entire story at once. I probably would have actually paid for it, if it was complete, but glad I  didn't since I kept having to add new pieces-some of which were included in others I already had. Not that free is anything to complain about, but I know they go from free to $2.99 to $.99 and back. If I had paid for some of these, I really would be mad. I waited for Serial Killers:Uncut just because from experience I knew at some point that one would be offered free as well. And it was. Just as I do not like when a cd or dvd is released and then the "extended version" is realeased weeks or months later, it is the same with books. Seems a bit gimicky and I think the authors had this intent all along. Now there are "prequels". So where will it REALLY end?