I'm ever so slowly working through the stack of books at my bedside. I was attracted to Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero because it was a best seller, all the reviews mentioned Scooby Doo and funny horror, and just look at that cover! (I thought, "Ok, that's my jam!") But after reading it, I'd say it's more like the second part of It by Stephen King, with damaged adults coming back to their childhood haunt to find answers to a supernatural event.
It
was well written but spent a little too much time describing fight
scenes and I'm not sure why people found it funny? I might be a little dense, but I like goofy funny, think "dad joke" type stuff and dry humor. This was neither. It wasn't
the engaging kind of book you had to stay up to read, but it was entertaining to find out what exactly they were fighting, (Psst it's a Lovecraft-type old god mixed with some black magic). It read more like watching a movie to the point of the writer describing the characters cues.
I did enjoy that there was a dog main character. Don't worry nothing happens to the dog and you find out he's actually much cooler than he appears to be. There's some plot twists that make it enjoyable, but overall I'd say it's just ok. Not a must read, but a great book to fill time that you can pick up and put down easily without missing a beat...down (fight scene reference intended).
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