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Não Sou Um Serial Killer (2009)

by Dan Wells(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

9896661200 (ISBN13: 9789896661205)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Contraponto

series

John Cleaver

review 1: I was okay with reading a story from the perspective of a serial killer, but somehow John Wayne Cleaver didn't work as well as Dexter Morgan. Dexter, for one, never hit an old lady over the head. Dexter had more control than John, and Dexter's backstory was more compelling.I didn't buy John's mother's reaction to finding out her son is a sociopath.I sympathized much more for the demon neighbor Mr. Crowley than I ever did for John. I understand there are other books in this series, and I won't be picking them up.
review 2: I would have given this a 3.5 rating.I liked this book well enough, but I won't be reading the others in the series. The characters were interesting, but I would have liked to see them all fleshed out a bit more, especially the killer. I think... more it also would have been more interesting without the supernatural element. I had a hard time suspending my disbelief when John was talking on the phone with and face-to-face with (albeit wearing a mask) the killer, and the killer did not recognize him. It's that whole Clark Kent wearing glasses and no one recognizes he's Superman thing.Also, the description of John bashing in an old woman's head bothered me. Based on the description in the book, I expected her to be dead. The head can only take so much of a beating. And she was in frail health. It just seemed a bit much.Book Description:John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it.He’s spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential.He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he’s written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation.Dead bodies are normal to John. He likes them, actually. They don’t demand or expect the empathy he’s unable to offer. Perhaps that’s what gives him the objectivity to recognize that there’s something different about the body the police have just found behind the Wash-n-Dry Laundromat---and to appreciate what that difference means.Now, for the first time, John has to confront a danger outside himself, a threat he can’t control, a menace to everything and everyone he would love, if only he could.Dan Wells’s debut novel is the first volume of a trilogy that will keep you awake and then haunt your dreams. less

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