![]() In a lot of ways, he’s a fairly normal teenager: socially awkward, more than a bit geeky when it comes to his areas of interest (serial killers), at least a touch neurotic, beset by bullies in school, attracted to girls and unsure how to deal with that, saddled with a dysfunctional family past and a mother who loves him but whose attempts to help often drive him up the wall. Perhaps the best part of the books is Cleaver himself, a sympathetic teenage boy whom it’s surprisingly easy to like. I say this as someone who doesn’t usually like horror as a genre, because I find real life terrifying enough, so take my comment as you will… All credit due to the genre of teen horror, but this series transcends the genre. But it’s also a lot more, as I Don’t Want to Kill You brilliantly (and I don’t use that word lightly) demonstrates. It sounds like a clever premise for an ongoing series, one that combines a half-cockeyed look at teen life with a ration of suspense, violence, and gruesomeness. ![]() And again ( I Don’t Want to Kill You, released just last month). And then the same thing happens again ( Mr. ![]() Obsessed with serial killers.Īnd then a real-life serial killer comes to his small town. John Wayne Cleaver, the main character of I Am Not a Serial Killer, is kind of a weird kid. ![]() ![]() Includes spoilers for Book 3 in a very general sense, but no specifics. Year Published: 2010 īinding: Trade Paperback (also available in hardback and as an ebook) ![]()
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