Review: Gripping crime with a paranormal atmosphere
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2013
Stixx reads like new adult crime. When I started it I didn't know what to expect, but poor old Stixx is stuck in the worst job ever, and lives in the pokiest place in the UK. It's all very abstract when two male lovers take a clandestine drive to their make-out spot, only to have some weird naked guy end them. That's when the action begins and it is runaway and dramatic!Is he a vampire? Could he really be a vampire? Why is this serial killer killing as if he is a vampire? But then! Oh wow, just when you think you can handle the pace and you know Stixx, his buddy, and Faye, Stixx gets beaten up, cops go missing, the press is all over hokeypokeyville, and luckily that means cash in the pockets of the local boarding house!There are so many question marks, too many questionable characters who could be behind it (even the cops!), when the worst possible thing could happen, Stixx is marked as the fall guy by the cops because his friend Faye has gone missing!This is edge of your seat, paranormal crime (with a logical explanation at the end), but it's also really funny in places (I laughed out loud a lot), and it stands up for the little guy. It's gripping, compelling, really unputdownable, and with such a twist at the end! I didn't see that twist coming. I honestly didn't. DEFINITELY 5 stars from me.