Crazy Dangerous by Andrew Klavan
Do Right, Fear Nothing
About the Book:
“You probably want to hear about Jennifer and the demons and how I played chicken with a freight train and-oh yeah-the weird murder . . . you’re definitely going to want to hear about that.” Sam Hopkins is a good kid who has fallen in with a bad crowd. Hanging around with car thieves and thugs, Sam knows it’s only a matter of time before he makes one bad decision too many and gets into real trouble. But one day, Sam sees them harassing an eccentric schoolmate of his named Jennifer. When Sam finds the courage to face the bullies down, he loses a bad set of friends and acquires a very strange new one. Because Jennifer is not just eccentric. To Sam, she seems downright crazy. She has terrifying hallucinations involving demons and the devil and death. And here’s the really crazy part: Sam is beginning to suspect that these visions may actually be prophecies–prophecies of something terrible that’s going to happen very soon. Unless he can stop it. With no one to believe him, with no one to help him, Sam is now all alone in a race against time. Finding the truth before disaster strikes is going to be both crazy and very, very dangerous.
What I thought:
This book pulls you right into the action from the very beginning. Reading the part about playing chicken with a freight train had me seeing it as a high-intensity movie scene. As I was sitting beside my husband I would grip his arm, squeezing tight just as I do when we watch a movie with a thrilling scene. After such an adrenaline rush, the next bit seems almost slow. There were a few pages I wanted to tune out a bit — dialog and thoughts of teenagers. There was no bad language or anything that can be typical of an action story like this, but a bit of “high school drama”. But then I remembered, “Oh yeah, this is a book for teens, not their mama”–though this mama enjoyed it immensely. Don’t skim or skip–there is some good stuff there, too. Once the action really got going again, it was hard to put down. I kept wondering just how things were going to work out. I figured the “good guys would win”, etc. but was Jennifer really crazy? Were these prophetic visions, hallucinations? Was God speaking to Sam through Jennifer’s visions? I was really hoping they would see things as super-natural and not settle for the “logical explanation”. I am not going to give it away — you’ll have to find out yourself. It is a great read.
About the author:
Andrew Klavan was hailed by Stephen King as “the most original novelist of crime and suspense since Cornell Woolrich.” He is the recipient of two Edgar Awards and the author of such bestsellers as True Crime and Don’t Say a Word. His books and screenplays have been turned into films directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Michael Douglas, Ed Burns, Michael Caine among others.
Hometown: Santa Barbara, California
Books Sold to Date: over 1.5 million.
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