Have you ever read, seen, or even felt like something was too good to be true, or just too good to be... good, and then it hits you: you are reading/seeing a horror scene? Yeah... Welcome to “Never Never” by Liz Butcher.

This is a dark fantasy, criminal, detective type novel and I can put a dash below the word thriller, because as sure as hell the author knows how to scare us and keep us on our toes while imagining all the eerie possibilities EVEN before the actual “detective work” starts out. “Never Never” is creepy as hell, and although there are lots of non-creepy detective police work and interactions, the creepiness doesn’t go away from the background, nor does the anxiety behind all of it all. It’s amazing! Creepy, yetamazing that a writer can actually keep us thrilledthroughout the entire novel, no matter how light the scene, and one can only blame those first 6 chapters.

Another thing that we have  to state is that Liz Butcher, (quite a name for an horror writer by the way) almost bordered to the GENIUS  when she combined several elements that made us, the readers, emotionally involved in the story at once, not only by first scaring the hell out of our wits through the main character’s experiences, then by taking a piece of everybody’s childhood and putting into this haunting piece of story, BUT, by completing the circle by making the case closely related to our main character. I haven’t read much of the Brother’s Grim stories but I’m sure they would be somewhat written like this. Very nice.

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