Scholastic Red Eye Horror: Flesh and Blood
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Brand: Scholastic
Description: When Sam sets out to investigate what's going on at Bierce Priory, he has no idea of what he's getting himself into. Uncovering the horror is one thing, escaping is another. Scholastic Red Eye Horror: Flesh and Blood - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Merchant: Scholastic
Product ID: 102286
ISBN: 9781847154569
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Author: Debbie
Rating: 5
Review: Sam and his parents move to Prior Mews, which neighbours Bierce Priory, the home to an influential, wealthy family in the area. Their nocturnal activities pique his curiosity as well as the strange behaviour effecting those he encounters, including his parents. Are they colluding in a secret or is it something else? It's when he drags his new school friends to investigate the house that gross discoveries are revealed. Get the hell out of there! You never can tell what goes on behind closed doors. Shocking yet fascinating.
Author: Mieneke van der Salm
Rating: 3
Review: After very much enjoying the first two instalments of Stripes' Red Eye series, I was really looking forward to reading the third one, Simon Cheshire's Flesh and Blood. It was a fun story, well fun in a gory, scary kind of way, but one I enjoyed a lot. Set in what seems to be a small, typical suburban community under the smoke of London, Flesh and Blood tells the tale of seventeen-year-old Sam, who discovers that instead of moving to suburban paradise, his family has moved straight into the cul-de-sac from hell. The story is told by Sam and I really enjoyed the narrative form Cheshire chose to let him tell his tale in. Sam has ambitions to be a journalist, which is what gets him into trouble in the first place, and they reflect in the way he tells his story. Told in the past tense, looking back from the ending of the story, Sam sometimes sounds as if he is writing a personal essay for English class and at other times his style is a bit more mature and polished. He also editorialises, commenting on his actions and planting clues as to what is coming up. I really enjoyed the way Cheshire built up the narration and I kept wondering who Sam was writing this piece for, the revelation of which was a great twist. As a protagonist Sam is sympathetic. He's a good kid, good grades, well-behaved, mostly suffering the usual teenage woes with his parents until they move to Hadlington and everything changes. There is the usual new kid at school stress, compounded by the discovery of a murder victim right in front of the school gates on his first day. But there is also some of the fun of starting anew, such as discovering new friends. He quickly becomes friends with Liam and Jo and I loved the dynamics of this threesome. The scene where Liam introduces Sam to Jo and they discover their mutual nerdiness was adorable. Yet however important Liam and Jo and Emma Greenhill are, none of them becomes as vivid and well-rounded as Sam is. The horror elements of Flesh and Blood go beyond the gore factor; the setup of the town with the estate at the periphery and the constant stressing of the fact that there is gang activity there make Elton Gardens seem somewhat ominous. Yet the pervasive hold the Greenhills have on the community is far scarier as it created a sense of paranoia and claustrophobia, as it seems as if everyone is watching Sam and reporting back to the Greenhills. All of these elements fuel Sam's own considerable self-doubt, no one doubts Sam's theory about the Greenhills as much as Sam himself does. Watching Sam investigate the matter and the slow build up of clues and evidence was fascinating. The inexorableness of the investigation's results and the rising panic that suffuse the latter part of the book were well done, though the ending broke the tension rather brusquely. While the ending was very well executed, I actually didn't like how the book concluded. It felt as if it came to a crashing halt, since the last third or so of the book drives the tension constantly higher, so that when the resolution appears it feels rather abrupt. Despite my quibbles with its ending, I enjoyed Simon Cheshire's Flesh and Blood. If you like your horror gory and tense and you heroes earnest and straightforward, then you should definitely pick this up. Note however that the book carries a warning about its suitability for younger YA readers and in this case I think that's a valid warning, so parents might want to read along with their younger children. This book was provided for review by the publisher.
