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Touch the Night
Touch the Night | Max Booth, III
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MOTHER! MOTHER! RISE FROM THE GROUND! Stranger Things and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre unite to form a blood-soaked matrimony of violence and corruption. Something sinister's hiding in the small town of Percy, Indiana, and twelve-year-old Joshua Washington and Alonzo Jones are about to find themselves up close and personal with it. After a harmless night of petty property damage leads to the unthinkable, the red and blue lights of a cop car are the last things these boys want to see. Especially a cop car driven by something not quite human. Enter Mary Washington and Ottessa Jones. Their sons have been best friends for years, and now Josh and Alonzo have been abducted in the dead of night. Worst of all, the local sheriff refuses to believe they're missing, leaving it up to Mary and Ottessa to take the law into their own hands before a family of ungodly lunatics can complete a ritual decades in the making. Together they will embark on a surreal and violent journey into a land of corrupt law enforcement, small-town secrets, gravitational oddities, and ancient black magic.
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BekahB
Touch the Night | Max Booth, III
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This is why I love buying books directly from independent publishers. I knew the book was coming signed, but the personalized touch was extra nice! I was introduced to Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing through my Night Worms subscription. I really enjoyed We Need To Do Something, so I‘m excited to read another book from this author. This one is described as Stranger Things meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which sounds amazing!

Reggie I really like this author and I think if I hadn‘t been reading it the week George Floyd got murdered I would have enjoyed this book a lot more. Also, I‘m always on my tippy toes and hunched shoulders when nonBlack authors write Black people but I think he did a great job avoiding most of the tropes of Black people in horror. Hope you like it but it‘s a doozy! 2y
BekahB @Reggie I absolutely agree. I‘ve read books where the authors definitely failed at representation. I‘m hoping this one doesn‘t disappoint. I‘m planning to make it part of my October reading list, so we shall see. I have to admit, the comparison to TCM is kind of what pulled me in. 2y
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Reggie
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I can‘t really say pick or pan because Max has written a novel in which the four main characters are Black. 2 are 13 yo boys who are best friends. 2 are their mothers who are totally opposite in nature but united in their love for their boys. Booth sets the horror machine against them as beings dressed up as cops who operate so easily through the system that is racism. I cared about these characters. I needed to know what happened and was 👇🏼

Reggie left with a huge hole in my heart. I just don‘t think a horror novel about Black trauma written by a nonblack author is what we need right now. Is Max Booth racist. No. Will I read him in the future? Absolutely. Also, growing up, my dad and I always guessed how close to the beginning the POC died in horror movies because it ALWAYS happened. Maybe I‘m just sick of them/us dying in horror, too. (edited) 4y
vivastory Thoughtful review Reggie! Have you read 4y
Reggie @vivastory I have not. I always read good things about it and Victor LaValle. 4y
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Centique Such a good point you make. It‘s amazing how blind we are (or more accurately I was) to the tropes of “Black best friend” or “gay couple ending in trauma” or “POC don‘t make it to the end of the film” etc and then somebody explains it to you and you realise it is EVERYWHERE. 4y
Centique Also - to your point - I agree about this not being what is needed right now. We haven‘t changed anything if all we achieve is white voices getting more insightful/inclusive - but still occupying the top of the ladder across industry after industry. Hopefully there‘ll be some ladder SMASHING. 🙌 Let some new voices reign! 4y
Reggie @Centique Thank you for understanding. ❤️ 4y
Rissreads Such insightful comments as always @Reggie and @Centique 💙 4y
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