J-F. Dubeau

In the quaint farm village of Saint-Ferdinand, an ancient evil lurks—threatening to destroy the town and its residents.

A God in the Shed

kelsey

Joey Baker

I regretted choosing this as my next book about 10 pages in. But due to sunk cost fallacy, I had to just finish it so it would count towards a completed book this year. 
But fucking yikes this sucked. 
I had picked it up solely because I'm such a sucker for descriptive blurbs that I fell Jerry Smiths comparison to True detective on the cover (which I am a desperate fool for anything resembling season 1 of TD). Well Jerry Smith is a fucking dipshit, whoever he is. 
I am sorely disappointed in this book. What I was hoping would be some tale of a serial killer that led into creepy cults, was actually just YA-levels of hackneyed bullshit. I mean I still would like to say I like the general premise of the book (not literally) on paper, but this is clearly amateurish reddit prose, with just non-sensical plot development. 
First of all: how the fuck can there be such a prolific serial killer in such a small town (population of 3K), for 20 fucking years, with no involvement of the FBI? 
Also, what fucking idiot would have stayed behind in such a small town with such a serial killer? Surely by the 2nd year, anyone with a family would have just moved out to protect their children? Rather than "being more strict with curfew"?
Then, the reason the guy was even killing people was to use their eyes to keep the God imprisoned. WHY DID HE EVER NEED TO KILL MORE THAN ONE PERSON? ONE SET OF EYES WAS ENOUGH! HE DIDN'T NEED TO KEEP KILLING! OR EVEN KILL ANY HUMAN AT ALL, PROBABLY! A FUCKING SET OF SQUIRREL EYES WOULD HAVE SUFFFICED!
Oh and then guess what? A camera actually works all the same too! So he could have just setup a trail cam to keep it imprisoned. Sure maybe the tech wasn't around 18 years ago, but it was at some point. 
Then the dickhead detective character just makes no fucking sense at all. By the end his motivations were all the more confusing. And oh what a badass! He literally just punches every problem he has in the face!
Plus the 20 or so fucking characters and family trees that are thrown at you that you can't keep track of. I'm still not sure if there's like some warring factions between these two stupid fucking cults. 
Looking at the back of the book I realized this seems to be a quasi-crowd-funded publishing company, and that explains a lot. 
Now, as ridiculous as this book was, it was the very least engrossing enough to see where it went. I was certain I would give it 2 stars, rather than 1. But the description of "it was ok" for the 2 star rating on Goodreads seemed rather gratuitous as compared to my actual feelings on it. I did not like it, generally speaking. But, now I have time invested in this shit, so maybe I will read the sequels, granted I get them for free off libby. 

God damn. Fuck Canadians, man.

Gabriella Lanouette

Micah

-Barnes & Noble Best Horror Books of 2017 Pick -Runner-up for the American Library Association's Horror Book of 2017 "One of the most enthralling novels I've read in the last ten years. Dubeau is a force to be reckoned with." —Jerry Smith, Fangoria Magazine and Blumhouse.com "This is the page-turner you've been looking for." —Barnes & Noble The village of Saint-Ferdinand has all the trappings of a quiet life: farmhouses stretching from one main street, a small police precinct, a few diners and cafés, and a grocery store. Though if an out-of-towner stopped in, they would notice one unusual thing—a cemetery far too large and much too full for such a small town, lined with the victims of the Saint-Ferdinand Killer, who has eluded police for nearly two decades. It’s not until after Inspector Stephen Crowley finally catches the killer that the town discovers even darker forces are at play. When a dark spirit reveals itself to Venus McKenzie, one of Saint-Ferdinand's teenage residents, she learns that this creature's power has a long history with her town—and that the serial murders merely scratch the surface of a past burdened by evil secrets.

A God in the Shed

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