Off Season
Books | Fiction / Horror
3.9
(226)
Jack Ketchum
September. A beautiful New York editor retreats to a lonely cabin on a hill in the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River--off season--awaiting her sister and friends. Nearby, a savage human family with a taste for flesh lurks in the darkening woods, watching, waiting for the moon to rise and night to fall... And before too many hours pass, five civilized, sophisticated people and one tired old country sheriff will learn just how primitive we all are beneath the surface...and that there are no limits at all to the will to survive. This novel contains graphic content and is recommended for regular readers of horror novels.
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Author
Jack Ketchum
Pages
324
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Published Date
2013-10-20
ISBN
1477840524 9781477840528
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"Damn it. My expectations may have been too high for Off Season. The Girl Next Door was amazing, and I just couldn't connect with Off Season.<br/><br/>I've read two other cannibal books within the last year, so I was really looking forward to this. However, it followed a format that I'm not very fond of...nothing happens for a very long time (with little to no suspense), and then there's a crazy amount of violence to finish it off - my most recent experience with a book like this was Audition by Ryu Murakami. I don't have an issue with the violence in theory, and I've enjoyed movies who have followed a similar pattern, but I need that story / suspense to get me there. The violence in this novel was just random and over-the-top for no reason.<br/><br/>Off Season may have been better as a short story - I felt like I was supposed to care about the characters I had been given no reason to care about. I bought Offspring in addition to this one, so I'm still going to give that a chance.<br/><br/>Side note - I was so distracted by the fact that half the time Carla's name was written as Carta. WHY?!?!<br/><br/>This is probably more of a 2.5⭐ for me."
Emily
"This book is both chilling and dark. Good for all the gore enjoyers. "
Cain
"Absolutely horrifying, deeply perverted. Not for the faint of heart. "
Hannah Spagnoletti
"Gritty, gory, hard to read sometimes but it does its job. This definitely isn't for the casual horror reader. "
Melissa Rainwater