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Harvest of Souls

Michael Wayne
E-BookTime, LLC (2009)
ISBN 9781598249606
Reviewed by Abby Major for RebeccasReads (5/09)

A Halloween party at an abandoned building in the town of Mercy Falls, Minnesota leads to tragedy when a fire starts and a 17-year-old boy loses his life.  The surviving teenagers move on with their lives in the small town.

Twenty years later, Eve Lohmiller and 3 of her friends go to the cemetery with a spirit board to contact the spirit of the dead boy.   They get a message – “RMBRME”.  Next thing you know, people start dying.  Is it the spirit of Jeremy Unruh that is killing the children of the survivors from the fire where he died 20 years earlier?  If it isn’t, then who is?  Some masked man with a hatchet is terrorizing the town, making the people fear for their lives.  Will they find the answer before all of the towns’ children are dead?

Michael Wayne’s story is a scary thriller that keeps you on the edge of the seat.  The murders and the scenes where the corpses are recovered are like something out of a blockbuster horror flick.  The ending definitely threw me for a loop.  Every other page is another twist or turn in the plot and you never know where you’ll end up until you get there.  One criticism I will add is that the ending twist is somewhat unbelievable.  I would like to think if I were put in Diane’s position, I would’ve been able to tell!   I can’t say any more without giving away the ending.

I recommend this book for fans of the horror genre.  Don’t let the fact that the book is about teenagers throw you off - this is not a Young Adult novel!  The murder scenes are very graphic in nature and are probably not appropriate for children under the age of 16.

 

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