The Chalk Man
By C.J. Tudor
This week's book was for a book group that I am not a member of. Two lovely ladies I am in a meal swap with were discussing that one of the next books that they were going to discuss was The Chalk Man. When I heard the plot, I went home and ordered the book online.
The way the book was sold to me concept-wise was kind of like IT mixed with a little bit of Stranger Things. The book tells the story of a group of misfits who draw these stickmen to tell each other secret messages. One kid might be telling the other kids they should meet at the reservoir or playground, or such things. However, the chalk men begin showing up one day, with no one admitting to drawing them, and a dead body is found with the stick men leading the way.
I thought there would be supernatural things happening in this story, but there aren't. The story goes back and forth (another tie to IT if you ask me) with the main character telling what happened in each time period. The problem that I had was with the novel was that I need at least one character to like (or a villain so bad you love to hate them) to enjoy a book or show or something, but I couldn't related to any of the characters and it kind of fell flat. I was hoping for a scary book for Halloween but was left with a bit of a lame murder mystery, with an ending that leaves the reader being like “what did I just read?” Can't say I would recommend it.
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