Because for some completely unexplained reason, nobody can leave town without being captured and dragged back.īut let’s forget about the book’s nonsensical plot for a moment, shall we? The very first thing I actually noticed about the novel was how poorly it’s written. (Gah.) But the chocolatey goodness isn’t the only carrot dangling before these hormone-flooded boys slaying the October Boy means a one-way ticket out of Dodge, for good. And why, you ask, would these boys need to be starved prior to this gourd scavenger hunt? Why, because someone put candy in the monster’s glowing head, of course! Makes perfect sense. In order to stop said creature from crossing the town’s edges and reaching its center, the townsfolk parents lock up and starve all their 16-19 year old sons (quite an arbitrary age range, wouldn’t you say?), for five days and set them loose Halloween night with guns and machettes. And comes out only on … you guessed it, Halloween. The whole premise is pretty simple: there is an evil creature with vines for limbs and a jack o’lantern head that lives out in the cornfields of this very small town. So let’s start at the beginning, shall we? The reader learns a lot of what’s necessary to know about this particular story in the first few pages, so it’s fitting.
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