Night of the Prowler
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Average rating4.3
Assist the customers. Stock the shelves. Sweep the floors. Take out the trash. Survive the night. Zoe Doyle, an eighteen-year-old girl saving up for college and her first car, is working the night shift by herself at a secluded gas station for the first time. Her hopes for a normal night quickly diminish as she meets the local creeps, but she perseveres. Then she hears a news bulletin on a radio: A suspected serial killer undergoing a psychiatric evaluation has escaped from a nearby mental institution. Alone and afraid, her imagination runs wild. Is he coming here? Did I already see him? Is he watching me now?-she thinks. Unbeknownst to her, she's correct. The hyperviolent serial killer known as the Prowler is heading her way... and he's killing everyone in his path. Jon Athan, the author of 2020's Do Not Disturb, brings you a shockingly suspenseful and violent slasher inspired by the classics. Can you survive the night of the prowler? WARNING: This novel contains graphic content. Reader discretion is advised.
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This felt like a movie. My first experience with extreme horror. The death scenes are so brutal, to the point where I had to stop reading and come back to it later. But yet, I always did come back. This makes you feel disgusting reading it, but it's a bit like watching a movie through your fingers, you just can't look away. I loved the creativity in the kills, they were fun and I would LOVE to see this made as a movie. Slashers don't typically work because they feel very surface level, and boring. This one was paced perfectly. I loved flashing from Zoe's shifts at the gas station to the Prowler going on killing sprees. We didn't waste time getting to know his victims, we just went along for the ride.
I have no idea how I managed to miss the “WARNING” sign for this book. I honestly thought I was picking up a fun slasher, wow was I wrong. This was grotesque, brutal, vile, disturbing, stomach churning and I think I will pay more heed to the warnings next time. This is definitely not for the faint hearted and I would not recommend this unless you are a true extreme horror fan. With that said I struggle to give this a rating since I was not prepared for the carnage.
