The Angels are the Reapers by Alden Bell
Holt pbk, $15.00, 225 pages, ISBN 978-140-134133-6
The second book in our Halloween bite-a-thon is The Angels are the Reapers by Alden Bell.
It was described to me as a “quirky book” before I read it. All I can say is it’s in fact a quirky one. If you like the works of writers like H.P. Lovecraft, Brian Lumley or Stephen King at his goriest . . . The Angels are the Reapers has more decapitations, blood and guts than a sausage factory at stuffing time. The author’s flesh-craving zombie-vampire fest ignores the what and the why and the when to focus on the who and where in the form of a fifteen, “I’ll be sixteen next week,” year-old girl with a mission, a quest, and a ghurka knife. Should you choose to read this southern gothic, I can promise you’ll be entertained and you won’t soon forget the protagonist, a girl named Temple. All this comes from the pen of a high school English teacher in New York City who moonlights as a creative writing instructor at The New School. It’s not for the faint of heart however.
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