Review: THE NIGHTMARE GIRL by Jonathan Janz

Publisher Flame Tree Press

Length 245 pages
Format paperback

Published 2019

Series Standalone
My Copy I bought it

My Review
If you read horror, read Jonathan Janz.

This year alone (2019) I've devoured 4 of his books, with The Nightmare Girl being the latest 5 star read. Not only are his books gloriously gory but they are loaded with interesting characters and entertaining plots. 

In The Nightmare Girl, we're introduced to small business owner Joe Crawford. He's a family man trying to do best by his young family, steadily earning a living in construction. He's a good natured, honest, All American kind of guy who finds himself deeply embroiled in a situation he's ill prepared for. 

A chance encounter of the crazy kind sees him intervening in a strangers' public display of family violence; the result leaves a mother charged and her child in foster care. As horrible as that is in itself, things get turned up a notch when the mother commits suicide before his very eyes, kick starting a chain of horrors culminating in a cult ritual that threatens to tear the town fabric in two.

The Nightmare Girl is a well rounded horror which doesn't fail to entertain. Much like the other novels by Jonathan Janz I've read, I couldn't turn the pages fast enough.

My rating: 5/5 stars.