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I Was A Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Hunter Johns
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From the New York Times bestselling horror writer comes a classic slasher story with a twist—perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Grady Hendrix.

1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, the unfairness of being on the outside, through the slasher horror he lives but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic.©2024 Stephen Graham Jones (P)2024 W. F. Howes Ltd. Horror Suspense Thriller & Suspense World Literature Scary
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Liked the perspective of the slasher for a change but am not so sure about the supernatural element.

Presumably it'll be a movie

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A good idea for a book, wasn’t a horror but nodded its head to slasher film

Interesting perception on slashers

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I was so invested in this it felt like no time at all. If you are fans of ‘Behind the Mask - The Rise of Leslie Vernon’ and similar fare, then this is for you. Well written and well read, you feel somewhat empathetic for Tolly by the end of the story. Listeners need to pay attention though as it jumps around a bit and you need to pay attention.

The time flew

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I'm surprised I haven't had this issue with one of these slasher movie inspired novels before, even from this same author, but I just couldn't buy into this one. The medium is incredibly important to how we interpet a story, and especially when the world it builds is specifically "oh, we are living in a horror movie" not "someone or something has made this world a horror movie". It's just in this world, the rules of a movie are inevitable.
Look at the Final Girls Support Group, where they go "oh hey, the movies are based on these stories", I can buy in.
This really sucks, because I do thoroughly enjoy the writing and the story, I just couldn't buy in because it was a book. When it's adapted into a film, I'll have no qualms, because the characters in the movie are characters in a movie, so it makes sense that movie rules apply to them. These are characters in a book. Ah well. Next time.

I could accept it if it were a movie

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