Reviews for The Skin Gods

The average rating for The Skin Gods based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-07-18 00:00:00 Ronald Samson Kevin Byrne is recovering from his wounds from the previous book and his partner Jessica Balzano gets pulled into a case involving a killing taped and put inside the movie as borrowed from a video rental store, it does give Hitchcock's movie Psycho a whole new level of horrible experiences. This is only the first of a series of killings that involves cinematic masterpieces. Jessica becomes the task-forces leader because her partner is not yet up to task recovering from his wounds. However Byrne does have his own demons to fight in which a sadistic killer gets released due to witness who never spoke up during the court-case. While Byrne sincerely doubts the witness he and the sadistic's last survivor are chasing the man down because they both are looking for justice. And they are both confronted by evil. When the dust settles and all has been solved both Balazano & Byrne feel like their ordinary lives have been altered in their experiences because it became way too personal this time. A decent serial killer book that is easy to read and has the right amount of twists and yet lacked some essential things to call this book good.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-03-15 00:00:00 Greg Onishi Okay that's it, I'm 2/3s in and I just can't take it anymore. Montanari's writing is just BAD. I wasn't being catty when I said he writes like me at 16, he literally does! The over-descriptiveness, the weird awkward emo stuff that is meant to be deep... Actually, I think he's a lot WORSE than me at 16. The main female character has yet to have A SINGLE SCENE where she doesn't find some excuse to ponder how her life is basically over because she's now OVER 30 and thus practically dead. And just... I can't be bothered anymore. It's too bad to try. The story idea was cool, a killer filming his crimes in the style of cult movies, and it was kinda fun guessing which movie he was doing at any given crime, but the writing is just too terrible to go on.