You Don’t Need 400 Pages to Be Scared

5 out of 5 stars

Unidentified by Michael McBride, other than being one of those words that my brain doesn’t want to ever spell right the first time tells a story from two different times.  When it originally happened when they were kids and again when it appears to be starting again.

This had the feeling of  Super 8 or Stranger Things with the added edge that McBride can add.  It also had that feeling of Jaws – where you never really got a head-on look at the monster.  You heard it and definitely knew there was something there, but you weren’t ever really shown or explained it in full.

What I really liked about this was its length.  Sure, some people don’t like shorter books like this, but I didn’t need 400 pages to be scared into submission.  McBride does it under 100.  He made me look around my room before going to bed without utterly scaring me so bad I couldn’t sleep.  It was that perfect medium.  The books you think about before bed but can still sleep.

I don’t want to write anything that would anything away, just know, especially if you pick up the audiobook narrated by Joe Hempel you’re in for a treat.  One of those “fun sized” candy bars (but the satisfying ones).  Hempel should be known as the voice of horror.  He was able to set the thick atmosphere that McBride wrote for Unidentified and keep me on the edge of my seat the entire 2 hours.

Book Description:

Unidentified by Michael McBride
Narrator: Joe Hempel
Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
Published by Tantor Audio on July 10th 2018
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
Also by this author: Snowblind, Subhuman, Subterrestrial
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