Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Printer

Simon & Schuster

Year Written/Published

2006

Country

USA

ISBN

1416520341

Binding

Paperback

Pages

360

Genre

Horror

Blurb

Seven feet tall. Four hundred pounds. A blood-crusted, rusty steel plate screwed into his skull. But perhaps the most terrifying thing about reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight are the razor-sharp nails on his forefingers, the ones that circle around his victims eyes just before he takes them.

Holed up within the long-abandoned Blackwell Hotel, nine floors of hidden passageways and two-way mirrors that once acted as a playground for the rich and privileged, Jacob's disturbing gaze is now fixed on Kira, Christine, Michael, Tye, Zoe, Melissa, Richie and Russell – eight delinquents hoping to shave time off their county jail sentences by performing community service and restoring the building – and detention officer Frank Williams, the former cop who put a bullet in Jacob's head four years prior. Goodnight sees the sins in their eyes – he always does – and he's going to pluck them out, one by one...

My Opinion

This is not a genre I normally read (the only reason I bought it was because it's the book of the movie starring wrestler Kane), so I didn't know what to expect.

Surprisingly, the story was better than I hoped, maggots, gore and eyeballs aside. The characters are all punks, and as the going gets tough they stay in character pretty well. There are some definite twists, which I didn't expect, and the final showdown was topped by something that made me laugh.

I'm not a fan of slasher fics or flicks, but this was written better than I expected. The writing took second place took the gore though, which I couldn't get used to.

Date Finished

29/12/2006

Rating

6/10