I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
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In the end.
Well! The
end of the book was sure surprising. I had to go and reread a few of
the pages just to make my mind wrap around the ending (it was near
the ending, not the end of the book exactly). This revealed who and
what the Impressionist actually was. It also led up to who the true
puppeteer behind this whole scheme, or pulled a few strings at least.
There are a few questions unanswered concerning of what Good Ole Dad
has up for us next, since he was the head honcho of the book. There's
a sequal, but it's like I won't be reading since i'll most likely
forget. Over all I was impressed with this book, it was thrilling and
a lot of brilliant fleshed out characters to boot. I was thinking the
book would be leave a bad taste in my mouth, since I assumed there'd
be some gore in there and really bad profanity (which it did; graphic
scenes with vulgar swearing but I wasn't disgusted as much as I
thought).
What
are your thoughts about the end? Will you read the sequel?
3 comments:
I agree, the ending really was surprising! Honestly I didn't expect Mr. Fulton to be the Impressionist. The ending annoyed me in a way though. The Impressionist tries to be just like Billy Dent, but then attempts to make Jazz kill her in her sleep, which is something Billy Dent most likely would not do. Also, the whole thing with Howie making Connie drive them over because he couldn't sleep was really out of nowhere. When did Howie even get out of the hospital? And why would he go to Jazz's house because he couldn't sleep and bring Connie too? And wouldn't the police station check the guy through police radios every once in a while? I'm pretty sure that it's a given that the police check up on each other.
And at the end of the book where Jazz gets the tattoo that says I Hunt Killers, I didn't like that, and didn't really think that suited the way his character is in the rest of the book, though it could be understood because of the traumatic experience he had with the Impressionist.
Most likely I won't read the sequel, because I don't like the whole idea that Jazz is going to hunt down his father. Jazz was completely against killing people throughout the book, and was saying to himself that people matter, and then he turns around and says he is going to do anything to kill him? No, I didn't like that character change and will not read the book for that reason probably.
I was disappointed.
From the first post I made I spoke about how I wish the characters had more elaboration and also wished that the story line was more in-depth. I thought that maybe it would get better as the book went on... but it did not.
I got very annoyed at times when Barry Lyga attempted to make Jazz seem like this ultimate killer who was simply in his slumber, when he was really just a teenage boy who had learned a trick or two from his father. That's really what annoyed me the most, and what disappointed me most of all was exactly that; Jazz was an awful main character. I do not think there was one character that was actually a well thought one. Jazz was a reflection of his dad, but he was trying to be good instead of turning bad, "Fulton" was an exact replica of Billy Dent, and Billy Dent was... Billy Dent. Dear Ol' Dad was my favorite character because he was really the only well thought, well introduced, and most creative character of all. When Jazz and Billy had their conversation, I was really interested. I wish Barry Lyga had spent more time improving the other characters because in all honesty, Billy Dent was the only original character.
I give the book an honest 4/10. I think the book was a bit fast paced and even at that, the book had parts that were too long, and other chapters that were just too short. The only reason I give it a 4 is because it did have it's moments where I was naturally interested in reading on, but only to be disappointed at what occurred on the following pages.
DianaV11- The end of the book was kind of confusing, shocking, and did not meet my standards, or expectations, for a good ending. It did not seem to go along well with the rest of the book. For example,as Catherine said, Jazz changes his whole viewpoint in the end. He now wants to do anything to kill his father when he never wanted to kill anyone. Due to this fact, I most likely would not read the sequel unless someone said it was a complete turnaround.
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