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Reviewed by Janelle Fila for Readers' Favorite
White Walls and Straitjackets is the name of the book Harry and Crystal read together as they plan their escape. They've just murdered critics who gave them poor reviews and want to begin fresh with new lives. At first, they think the book is interesting and entertaining. But soon they start seeing too many similarities with things happening in their own lives. The two begin to question just exactly how the book came to be in their lives, who wrote it, and why.
I thought the way author David Owain Hughes used two stories to tell his overall story was very fresh and original. The story alternates between what is happening in real time with Harry and Crystal and what they are reading in the fictional version of White Walls and Straitjackets. I liked the back and forth action and also how, later on, the two stories started to merge together. They weren't completely separate or on their own at all. So that was a neat twist that I appreciated and didn't see coming.
This story is very dark, creepy and violent, all of the ingredients for a good horror story. I could totally see this as a movie with Jack Nicholson running around as a crazy psycho. It was a little unnerving, actually, and I would recommend reading it during the day, unless you love horror stories. Then you will absolutely love the darkness within these two tales.
