Mask Of Flies - Matthew Lyons

Horror

Rating: 7.5/10

Bodies drop like flies in this book. I won’t elaborate on the irony of that, but you know, the title.

I would have thought there were no new ways to describe the atrocities that can occur in horror novels. I couldn’t have been more wrong. This author littered these pages with an untapped treasure trove of adjectives to portray the horrors that haunt this novel. For that feat alone, I saw it through to the end. No matter the waves of nausea it inspired along the way.

As the saying goes, there is no honor among thieves. Our tale of terror begins with Anne narrowly escaping a botched bank heist with a wounded team member and a cop she has recklessly taken hostage. And that’s only the beginning of her mistakes. If being fugitives wasn’t bad enough, when Anne takes refuge at the cabin she hasn’t seen since her mother’s death she finds something waiting for her there. And it might be hungry, ravenous in fact.

With gun battles and flying gore worthy of a Tarantino film, a crazed cult leader intent on opening up a passage (more like a grotesque maw) to hell, and a kickass heroine this book has a lot to keep a reader turning those pages.

But you’ve been warned. It’s a bit…yucky.

Book Pairing(s): The Ruins by Scott Smith, Seven Visitations Of Sydney Burgess by Andy Marino, Hide by Kirsten White