Review: Movie worthy for sure
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2014
I would love to see any of Matt Shaw’s books made into films but ‘Consumed’ seems like it was tailor made for the big screen. It opens with a shocking scene that tells the reader something very bad is going to happen. From there, we meet our cast. We have a boyfriend/girlfriend, an ex-boyfriend/ex-girlfriend, and a guy and girl that might in the future be in a relationship. They are traveling in a retro VW with an unreliable engine. As you can imagine, they get lost along the way to their campsite and meet an interesting family that has plans for them. This story very much reminds me of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.  With Matt’s love of television over book reading (Go figure), it doesn’t surprise me that he has a book that lends itself towards being more screenplay-like. As the cover warns, there is some gory scenes. If you’ve read Sick Bastards and didn’t like it, Consumed is very similar in terms of horrifying scenes. If you loved Sick Bastards, Consumed might tide you over until Sicker Bastards comes out.The book is not without its flaws. There is quite a bit of the relationship storylines leading up to the gory bits. The story also ends a little abrupt without a lot of these prior relationship storylines being resolved. If you don’t care for that part of the story and just want gore, you might not care about this. I wished the story just went on a little bit longer to tie up some loose ends.Despite those flaws, the book was still damn good. I ‘consumed’ it in a day and I’m still hungry for more books by Matt Shaw.