This book was truly vile in sections but in a way that reminded me of older extreme horror as opposed to the newer slate of 'splatterpunk'. It was nasty but there was a point to the nastiness. 

Silent Night, Deadly Night as a film creates a structure that impacted slasher literature in many ways. The character study elements are something uniquely suited to the novel format and Munoz does a great job tackling them in an official novelization. 

Whilst not perfect, elements added can be extremely skeevy in ways that I'm not always comfortable with, and sometimes the tonal shift between 'serious character study' w/ 'campy slasher movie' conflict.

All that being said though...this is a book I really liked and I don't know if I feel good admitting that hahahaha.