Offspring
by Jack Ketchum
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Author: Jack KetchumEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 2007-05-29
ISBN: 0843958642
Number of pages: 293
Publisher: Leisure
Book Reviews of Offspring
Book Review: Not Ketchum's best
Summary: 3 Stars
At this point I have read several of Ketchum's novels, and to be honest the first book in this series "Off Season" really didn't thrill me. I had a hard time dealing with Cannibals who were capable of speech and yet were so overly barbaric. The two didn't mesh well in my mind.
This sequel was far less bloody, less immediate, and less terrifying. Too much information was given on the wrong parties in the book, and not enough on the ones that we should have gotten info on. The death toll is far lower in this book, and nowhere near as gruesome. In most cases the deaths are barely described and seem "skimmed over" in comparison to the extreme detail he went to describing them in the first book. Also this plot follows the first almost exactly. There is almost nothing new here from the first book.
(Possible spoiler warning)
You have a group of people in a cabin beset by Cannibals who drag a few of them off to a cave and torture them, there are also some cops trying to find the Cannibals. (/spoilers)
Sounds an awful lot like Off Season doesn't it? Well you could save yourself the money and just read Off Season again because it really is the same exact book, with a lot of what was interesting in the first left out of this one. I won't say this was a bad book, it just brought nothing new to the table and seemed rather unfocused. If you like Ketchum, read "The Girl Next Door" rather than this book, it's a much better read.
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