Not a disaster, but definitely a disappointment, feeling padded even for its short length, and lacking any sort of emotional investment. The only character I cared remotely about in the end was the October Boy himself, and even that is at the most basic level. The plot itself doesn't stand up to a...
An unnamed town in 1963 is home to a yearly event on Halloween called the "Run" which tracks down a thing called October Boy. Grown each year and set free on Halloween, he is given a butcher knife to use against boys between the ages of 16 to 19. The boy that kills October Boy is free to leave the t...
Normally, when I finish one book and move on to the next, I make a random selection from a list of what I have to read to determine which one is next. This is to avoid the "last in, first out" problem I normally have when reading books. I'm making an exception with Dark Harvest, since I've read so m...
All-in-all I really enjoyed "Dark Harvest". It was seasonal, a great Halloween read, and the story and the premise were creepy and certainly held my attention cover to cover.But, (slight spoilers here!!!!) somehow I felt a little let down by the ending. I would like to have known more about the Harv...
This is a small novel (around 100 pages). The premise was something we've seen somewhere in another books but the twists Herr Norman gave made it unique. Halloween is a time of trick or treat - so what better than to chase the Pumpkin monster instead of him chasing you? Every year boys with 16 or 17...
Hello again my friends! It's been too long that i have been able to follow up on my first Review of Stephen Kings Doctor Sleep. Today I bring you a short and quickly paced read by author Norman Partridge called Dark Harvest. This book was a really fun read, It flowed like a quick old fashi...
Sometime a book just strikes you, it lingers in your mind for quite some time. This is one of these books. I went into this thinking it's going to be your typical gore, horror, cheap thrill books, which is fine. I do enjoy a good, senseless, cheap, gory read from time to time, but this one was more ...
It's Halloween again and time for the Run. It's a night when teenage boys go after the October Boy and whoever gets him, wins. They get to leave the town and go after their dreams. Pete McCormick is one of those boys and he's planning on winning until he discovers the truth about the October Boy.I r...
Appeal Characteristics: Halloween, Horror, Boys, Rural TownThis is shelved in the adult section, but the main character is only sixteen. I'm not a huge horror reader, but I am trying to be a purposeful well rounded reader. I know, I'll always lack in some areas...but I'm at least trying to get acqua...
I am undecided between 3 and 4 stars for this book, hence a 3.5*. I did enjoy it and it is a great Halloween time read, but I struggled a bit with the second-person narrative. This is a fairly short novel (more like a novella) and it moves very quickly. It is fun read and I enjoyed the characters b...
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