Lisa recently found out she was pregnant, and is going to break the good news to her husband.īut they are menaced by an erratic van driver who accuses THEM of driving erratically, and Brad is arrested for reckless driving. The plot: Lisa and Brad are an attractive, successful couple en route to a peaceful vacation. I went into this book expecting to hate it and be offended by the gratuitous violence.

Nobody is more surprised at my 4-star rating of this book than me. Stick with the PG friendly Dean Koontz!  To those offended, life isn’t always PG and the subject material will not always be watered down. Overall the book scared me and shocked me, which is a difficult feat. To me this is the scariest type of horror, no monster tromping through the woods or sparkly vampires, just depraved psychotics making money off of the snuff film industry, which to me scares me because a) I have heard the urban legends of snuff films and in 3rd world they exist (hell maybe in the US they do and b) they are people sick enough to want to watch this. Survivor is a page turner and I had to find out how Lisa was going to survive her ordeal. Like Ketchum, Gonzalez does an amazing job of showing the true horror of the human corrupt heart. I loved this book, it takes the reader to those dark deep places that we don’t want to know about that really exist but we want to pretend that they do not exist. I think it is so funny when “horror fans” become “offended” or “deeply disturbed”.

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