Saturday, November 28, 2015

The Butcher’s Boy Review

The Butcher's Boy

By Michael Robb Mathias


A 2011 Reader's Favorite Award Winner for Horror Fiction



The Butcher's Boy

A Paranormal/Murder-Mystery/Chiller

by Michael Robb


Thirty-one years ago, Buxly the Butcher went to trial for killing his entire family. Now Janet, a newly divorced nurse, has unknowingly purchased the place where it all took place.



What happens when her eleven year old son and their overprotective Rottweiler learn that the place is haunted by the victims of that grizzly act? Can young Michael fight through the madness and terror to figure out what really happened so long ago? If he does, maybe the tormented souls can be put to rest. If he fails, he just might become one of them. With only the help of his babysitter, a burned out house painter, and his dog, Lucy Fur, Michael is about to try. The problem is, not everyone is who they seem, even the dead.


***Content Warning: This is NOT the over-gory sort of thrasher-horror novel, but it does touch on some unsettling subject matter and should not be read by the squeamish, the easily offended, or children under the age of 18.

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MY HONEST REVIEW OF The Butcher's Boy

When Janet’s nasty divorce left her broke, she was overjoyed to find a house and job in another town. So happy, in fact, that she didn’t question why the house was so cheap. When her son Michael tells her that the house they moved into was the site of a brutal mass killing, and that he has seen ghosts of the victims, she is skeptic. But when a serial killer targets close to home, she discovers there’s more danger than mere ghosts. And with no funds to move, there is nothing she can do about it.


This plot read like a lifetime movie, i.e. single mother, young son, haunted house, and of course a serial killer on the loose. I liked how I got to know all of the characters, and not just the main ones. That’s what made it real to me. This story had plenty of twists to keep you guessing. Each time I was sure of the killer, something would change that. I like that type of read, it’s what keeps it interesting.

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**The above opinions are 100% my own, whether I purchased the book or it was given to me to review.


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