This is a fun comedy horror story for the modern age. The titular character, Jack, sees himself as the next Louis Theroux, taking investigative journalism to new levels with books and social media platforms detailing the extreme lengths he goes to – taking various drugs and infiltrating gang culture for example. His latest project is to debunk supernatural claims of hauntings, possessions and exorcisms.
The resulting book is like ‘found footage’ pieced together by the Jack’s brother. Both Jack and his brother come across as quite unlikeable and not very reliable narrators, but this isn’t a problem, in fact, I think it adds to the fun.
It’s a horror book, so we know how ‘debunking’ claims of supernatural activity is going to turn out, and the fact that the brother has to piece together bits of written text, video and other media to tell the story give us a clue that it’s not going to end well for Jack (and the title of the book I guess lol!).
There are nice nods to classics in the horror genre, and on the whole I really enjoyed reading this book.
Sarah Wray Writer 