This is the first time I regret having purchased something written by Grady Hendrix, and funnily enough, it’s the first I read by him that features a male narrator. While his female leads are so well done, I found his male narrative voice inauthentic and unoriginal.

And of all the things he could’ve done with the premise of the bogeyman, I was disappointed to see he chose to do nothing whatsoever with “creature feature” and turned it into social commentary. I like horror symbolism, but I don’t think this was a good analogy, and I really did not want to read about femicides here when he did an immensely better job at that commentary in The Final Girl Support Group within a single paragraph: 

If he had gone a more symbolic way, I might’ve liked this a lot better.