Suicide Town - BOOKS.HCCP.ORG

Kindle Edition, 296 pages

English language

Published Feb. 15, 2022

(1 review)

You can visit the town, but you won't be leaving. Dean is a bestselling writer who struggles with writer's block ever since the scandal. Between the accident and the public scandal, no publisher wants to work with him anymore - until his agent calls him one day to tell him he managed to sign a deal with a small publisher. Dean isn't thrilled, but his lack of excitement turns into frustration when he learns that his deadline to come up with an idea for a book is thirty days.

It is during his research of creepy internet legends that he stumbles upon the mysterious story of Suicide Town. This isolated little place is notorious for its high number of suicides, but that isn't the only thing it's famous for. The legend claims that any visitor who comes to Suicide Town ends up killing themselves soon after.

Inspired to write a …

You can visit the town, but you won't be leaving. Dean is a bestselling writer who struggles with writer's block ever since the scandal. Between the accident and the public scandal, no publisher wants to work with him anymore - until his agent calls him one day to tell him he managed to sign a deal with a small publisher. Dean isn't thrilled, but his lack of excitement turns into frustration when he learns that his deadline to come up with an idea for a book is thirty days.

It is during his research of creepy internet legends that he stumbles upon the mysterious story of Suicide Town. This isolated little place is notorious for its high number of suicides, but that isn't the only thing it's famous for. The legend claims that any visitor who comes to Suicide Town ends up killing themselves soon after.

Inspired to write a book about Suicide Town, Dean decides to visit the town. At first glance, everything is normal except one minor thing - the townsfolk have strange rules they want Dean strictly to follow to the letter. The longer Dean spends in Suicide Town, the more he learns that the townsfolk are hiding something important from him; something dark that only they know.

By the time he learns why the rules are so important, it's far too late to leave without consequences. Writing the book falls into oblivion as Dean's main concern becomes how to survive his stay in Suicide Town.

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TiffyBelle@bookwyrm.social reviewed Suicide Town by Boris Bacic

Great Horror

4 stars

This is such a dark, dark book even for the horror genre. The name, of course, gives that away but it is deeply unsettling and disturbing on all kinds of levels. As a horror aficionado who has built up a kind of tolerance for the macabre, the fact that this book made me feel so unsettled and shook can only be praised!

This book does an excellent job of portraying the forays of a down-on-his-luck author looking to get his life, and career, back on track by writing a new bestselling book. To do this, he settles on horror as his genre of choice and decides to begin some research about a place referred to as "Suicide Town," which is known for its disturbing number of suicides; many seemingly inexplicable. Being the dedicated writer he is, he decides to pay the town a visit to get some real inspiration for …

This is such a dark, dark book even for the horror genre. The name, of course, gives that away but it is deeply unsettling and disturbing on all kinds of levels. As a horror aficionado who has built up a kind of tolerance for the macabre, the fact that this book made me feel so unsettled and shook can only be praised!

This book does an excellent job of portraying the forays of a down-on-his-luck author looking to get his life, and career, back on track by writing a new bestselling book. To do this, he settles on horror as his genre of choice and decides to begin some research about a place referred to as "Suicide Town," which is known for its disturbing number of suicides; many seemingly inexplicable. Being the dedicated writer he is, he decides to pay the town a visit to get some real inspiration for his story and that's where things really get spicy!

This book also does a good job of portraying the dark, oppressive atmosphere surrounding the town as well as the behavior and suspicion that an outsider to such a place is likely to face from the locals. The writer really instills moments of dread and fear, particularly during the later scenes and his trip through the woods. I felt every one of those steps, and his imagination in some parts taking over.

The reveal right at the very end was also divine and left the events of what happened very much open to interpretation. Sometimes I get frustrated by a book that doesn't fully reveal everything, but the way it was done here was perfect.

There were a few minor typo/editing issues with the book and the character of Iris I found to be somewhat annoying and a little unnecessary who sometimes took the edge off of the horror elements and made a little bit too light of a situation. There were definitely times when it was hard to believe a character could be talking so jovially or about such trivialities given the weight of the situation, and I felt the book could have done without a "comic relief" character at all but overall these are minor complaints about an otherwise exceptionally told story. It's also a little bit slow at the beginning, but the methodical setup has its charm and the payoff is well worth it.

For any fans of the horror genre, Creepypasta and /r/nosleep this one's definitely for you!

Subjects

Horror
Zombies