The Creeper Man by Dawn Kurtagich Review

Happy Halloween Readers,

I loved The Dead House by Dawn, but I have always struggled to put into words my thoughts about The Creeper Man without writing Dawn a love letter. I adore this book it’s not just a spooky read but a psychological thriller that will make you question your own sanity. Trigger Warning: Mental illness, suicide, child abuse.
 


This is a hard book to review because I don’t want to give too much away but I will admit I wish I uld wipe my memory of this book so I could reread it completely blind and enjoy the experience and creepiness again. As much as I would love to reread this book every year, I tend to leave it two before I jump back into it.
 
Once again Dawn manged to deal with complex subject matters in a well thought out way. I know I have listed trigger warnings, but this story mentions madness, grief and fear. It's done in a very haunting way. One thing I will slightly give away is that although I had my suspicions very early on about a couple of the reveals, I couldn't have predicted the full scope of the twisty tale Dawn was telling.
 
The story unfolds like a nightmare with twisting corridors that only lead deeper into the places you don’t want to go but you can’t stop reading it. Dawn creates such vivid imagery within her books that it was easy to picture the old manor and the dangerous forest surrounding it.
 
 The book is told from different characters points of view, through diary entries and cleaver font types that all add to the tension and character building. I loved how this book was written and how some of the pages have been designed. It really is the details with Dawns books that just add that extra level of thought that I adore.

Stay Spooky

L x

 

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