Heres some more *buzz* for The Boy Who Drew Monsters The novel unfolds through rich prose and a deeply imagined story. The final page—the final sentence, really—comes as a clever surprise, but one that resonates soundly. Fans of Donohue’s first novel, The Stolen Child, will be pleased. Also recommended for readers of Joe Hill.—Library Journal It will raise the hairs on the back of your neck. Keith Donohue manages to peer into the darkest nightmares of childhood and beckon forth the monsters from the closet...Atmospheric and haunting. The Boy Who Drew Monsters is all the more chilling because it is grounded in real family life, with its heartbreaks and tenderness.—Eowyn Ivey, New York Times bestselling author of The Snow Child An eerie, unsettling novel about the monsters outside your door...and the ones inside all of us. Donohue fills his pages with intimacy and dread, and whips up an ending thatll take your breath away. —Christopher Golden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Snowblind There are no monsters. Thats what Jack Peters parents tell him, and what I kept telling myself as I got sucked deeper and deeper into this delectably chilling novel. But still, as I read, I found myself looking out the window at shadows moving in the darkness, until finally I had to get up and flip on every light switch in the house. The Boy Who Drew Monsters left me breathless and reeling, questioning the line between what is real and what is imagined — and realizing that the meeting of the two is where true terror dwells.—Jennifer McMahon, New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People Keith Donohue has crafted a brooding, Serlingesque tale of tragedy, heartbreak, and the things that go bump in the night. Creepy, nostalgic, and understated, The Boy Who Drew Monsters is a tale meant for the dark of night, but most will want to enjoy it with all of the lights on.—C. Robert Cargill, author of Dreams and Shadows
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:25:47 +0000