Messing Library

BOOK REVIEW  |  Whoa! This one was weird. I almost put it down after the first few pages because it was just too strange. But the cover was pretty cool, so I stuck with it and read the whole thing. The front cover was some kind of a sketch of a huge mosquito, and the back was an anatomical drawing of a human-ish hand/wrist. That alone was enough to make me buy it.

This book was half humor, half horror, half chess game between the characters. (I know, that's three halves... that's how weird this book was) Here's the summary: this guy is a reported for a cheap tabloid that deal with the unexplained. He gets a letter from a guy who claims to have a legendary, 4000 year old, man-eating (well, I guess it would be man-drinking) mosquito. Reporter goes out to investigate and gets stuck on island where crazy mosquito guy lives. The two get friendly, then things go downhill. People die. Other weird bugs come into the story. More weird things happen.

This actually got pretty interesting during the second half of the book. Once you suspend reality and accept that a huge mosquito could exist, the book is hard to put down if you really want to see what the big deal is regarding this bug. I was amazed, however, that noone mentioned "Off!" or "Cutter" during the entire book. Click HERE for its Google Books page!