Book Review: Butcher Road - Jon Athan


3.5 half stars.

Jon Athan was a find this year and I've been reading one per month or so. So far I've read 4 of them

My favourite was without any discussion

5* The Abuse of Ashley Collins

4* Camp Blaze , Cannibal Jungle & Butcher Road (3.5*)

Some minor spoilers...

This started very interesting but a bit slow. A couple are going through a hilly billy road and of course you know what's coming to them. One interesting part, and annoying is that they knew some of the risks yet put themselves in harm way. Basically they find a car with a couple of people dead, but not being much help and trying to get to the police they move forward. After a couple of miles they find a guy and gave him a hitchride (what? dumb decision...) and then the plot goes from them. It's a mix of wrong turn and other hilly billy cannibal stuff.

Interesting parts? Well, the vast majority of movies are safe to be honest. They usually don't dwell much on the cannibal parts but here it went a bit further. Everything in their houses were made of bones, they had some woman as a breeding ground with some very disturbing descriptions and then the eating. I was eating at that time, had to stop to think about it lol

Overall was good, my main complains are the pace, the dumb decisions (although if this was a homage I would say spot on). and the somewhat easy ending - although I enjoy it it was a bit easy. Not going to spoil..

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