(from the back of the book)
Shutter-to-think, Pennsylvania, has been on fire for years. The woods are full of rabbits with human eyes, a deer woman who stalks hungry girls, and swaths of skinless men. And the people of Shudder-to-think? Well, they're not doing so well either.
When El and Octavia wake up in a movie theater with no memory of the last few hours of their lives, the two teenage dirtbags embark on a horrifying journey to uncover the truth about the strange town that they call home.
I have to admit that the illustrations are not my favorite style. The faces are often indistinct and the backgrounds kind of fade away like they were not quite finished. But I think the style goes with the story being told here and I don't think a different style would have worked as well. The story is dark and creepy. There are skinless men crawling out of the ground and deer/human creatures in the forest. The women of the town all have lost time. But for some reason no one seems to be asking any questions. (Or leaving town for that matter.) Until two girls wake up in the movie theater with no idea what has happened for the last few hours. They decide to find out what is happening. I was hoping for some kind of investigation or something, a process by which they figure things out. But that didn't happen. They just happen to ask the right question and everything is explained. It was just too sudden of a revelation for me. All these people living with the mystery for years when all it took was one question. And then there are all the little story points that come up and go nowhere. I was left with a few questions. But since I had trouble working up an emotional attachment to any of the characters it is easy to just let the questions drop.
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