Horns

Full disclosure, I did not even finish this book, I feel that I gave it a pretty fair chance, but about 150 pages in, I just stopped caring, and there was no way I was plodding through to the finish.

The appearance of the horns and their influence over people is in interesting idea, but that is a very small part of the first half of the book. Beyond that, there was never really a moment that I cared about the characters. The killer is revealed very early and his motive is fairly obvious, so there was very little reason to read to the end.

I did have enough interest in the story to get a summary off the internet, and I am actually glad I stopped when I did, as it doesn't sound like it gets any better. The “bad guy” is given every “bad guy” cliche from hating his mother to bed wetting to brain damage to animal cruelty to an urge towards pedophilia which is more than a little overkill and really makes a one dimensional character. I am also not sure what the obsession with the term “sex murder” is, it is used constantly and is just a weird phrase that doesn't sound natural. Speaking of not sounding natural, this is an actual sequence from the book.

“EEEEEEEEEE,” Ig Screamed
“He's awful, Ig,” Terry said. “You don't know him. You think you do, but you don't have any idea.” “EEEEEEEEEEEE,” Ig went on.

All “EEEEEEEEE” makes me think of is a 1950's woman standing on the coffee table escaping from a mouse, not the big reveal in a “sex murder” novel.

That being said it's not the worst thing ever committed to paper, it's a easy, fast read not really requiring much thought, if books were food, this would be something like generic brand potato chips, edible enough, but not really providing any nourishment and just leaving you wishing you had something better in it's place.