Review of Demon Freaks

[Veronica Lobato]

[Following is a volunteer review of "Demon Freaks" by J.R.R.R. (Jim) Hardison.]

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3 out of 4 stars

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Demon Freaks by J.R.R.R. (Jim) Hardison is a horror-comedy book about a group of teenagers who are in a band and decide to get together the night before their SATs to play and study for the exams until something unexpected happens during a thunderstorm and subsequent blackout and they get involved in a creepy, weird and supernatural plot.

This book was absurd in the best way, the situations and some of the characters are so weird and fun to read, they get into this really unrelatable experience and react to it in the most relatable way; you can see the characters being very brave, but also scared and wanting to back out of doing things and not being able to work everything out only between them with them being only teenagers; there were so many pop culture references that really make the book so much more fun to read when you find them, making the dialogue feel more comedic and realistic.

The horror parts were really good as well, almost all of them very weird which made it work really well for both the horror and the comedy aspects, making it easier to release tension, but that doesn’t mean the horror is weak and that it doesn’t have intense and suspense provoking scenes; some parts of the book, especially around the middle and end of the book, become much more serious than what we see as a norm in the rest of the book and that helps to add substance to the story.

The only bad thing I could really find was that this book has some plot points that really feel like deus ex machina and that makes it feel like the stakes aren’t really important since it feels like everything will work out magically anyway, but that is understandable in a way since this is a YA book, but it feels to me like it lowers the horror.

I give Demon Freaks a 3 out of 4 stars, despite this book being really good in general and me really liking it as a whole, some of the parts near the end that feel like they came out of nowhere made me lower the one star since, for me at least, it felt sort of anti-climatic. I would recommend this book to people who enjoy a horror book with a sort of absurd sense of humor and horror/comedy stories in general.

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Demon Freaks
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