Cemetery Club (edition 2012)

Very good book. Dark and fast read.

It took me a while to write this because I was so busy. Boy I wish I had gotten into this way before I did! It is an amazing creepy and eerie story. I won't rehash the story line, as other already have, but if you are a fan of Stephen King's It, this is a similar coming of age story with elements of fighting evil and monsters that have haunted you since childhood.. ( )

Eh, it wasn't that terrible of a zombie-undead-vampire-gore killing-book that seems to be all the rage now a days. The characters did seem to fall a bit flat, even though you see the transition between being 16 and at 36; very Stephen King's IT. Todd, the main character, does have the most appealing character, followed by the female lead Marisol, who's personal life, turns out to unfortunately be the focus of all her personality. Eh, wasn't bad, wasn't good, but a book to get kids into a reading; something we all can agree on. ( )

Eerie tale of a buried and tortured towns past and the evil that lurks beneath it. I was sufficiently creeped out and the end made me cringe!! JG Faherty did a great job of twisting a tale that possibly borders on truth and easy to see happening. Not quite the Zombie Apocalypse but close enough that you want to start stocking up on water, food and most importantly guns, bullets and holy water! Definitely a good read for the paranormal lover and those that like a good ancient mystery!! ( )

The Cemetery Club is about four 16 year old kids who hang out in the Cemetery and call themselves The Cemetery Club. One day they accidentally unleash an ancient evil in the form of small monsters that look like aliens on the small town of Rocky Point. These creatures are vicious and spread their evil by climbing inside people’s mouths and turning them into zombies. The four kids defeat the evil but one member of the club spends 20 years in an insane asylum while another becomes an alcoholic. Now 20 years later, the evil has returned and only The Cemetery Club can stop it.

While I really did enjoy this story I do have to say that most of what is written in The Cemetery Club has been done and redone in several other novels. One book it reminded me of was Stephen King’s It. Even though the story will seem familiar to you this book is still well worth your time. All of the action scenes are well done. I also loved how the cemetery is described and how the creatures are described. The atmosphere in this book is spooky and stories about evil in a small town just never gets old.

My favorite part of the story is how JG Faherty presents the relationship between the four members of The Cemetery Club. You get to know them as teenagers and then you get to see them become very different people as 36 year olds. Despite there different paths in life and the fact that they haven’t talked to each other in years when there is trouble you see them come together and show that they never stopped being friends despite the passage of time.

The character with the most interesting story in this book was Todd. The idea of him coming home after 20 years in the mental hospital and trying to lead a normal life appealed to me and I felt a lot of sympathy for him. I think JG Faherty was using Todd to make a point about how horribly people with mental health issues get treated. The author describes quite a bit of illegal testing on the mental hospital’s patients and makes a point about how horribly humans treat other humans. This sets The Cemetery Club apart from other novels with similar stories and makes it a great book. ( )