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Book Review: Casper: A 'How To Make A Monster' Story
Posted on 21/08/2024 12:56:06Casper: A 'How To Make A Monster' Story by Felix I.D. Dimaro
My rating: 5 ghostly stars
'Being laughed at hurts no matter what the reason is. You wouldn't think that a sound that's supposed to indicate pleasure could cause so much pain.'
Written in a gripping and compelling manner, that I have already come to associate with Felix I.D. Dimaro, Casper deals with yet another way of turning a perfectly normal and kind human being into a monster.
Just as Dimaro's other stories, this one is also uncomfortable and a bit difficult to read at times. Because it sets the reader face to face with the darkest parts of human nature. No sugarcoating, hinting, or beating around the bush. No happy endings or candy-canes.
Just ... rip off the band-aid and display the festering wound type of truth. Difficult to accept at times and even to witness at others. Painful, unbearable, discomfiting and sadly... very real. This author is a master at laying it all out for everyone to see.
'Even Casper the Friendly Ghost got back at his mean old uncles from time to time right?'
And this is exactly what this particular novelette will show you here.
What do you do when you're constantly hurt, abused and also ignored? Do you get used to all of it after a while and learn never to get up again? Or do you do what even sweet little Casper did?
When a young boy is being both bullied at school and beaten at home; when he is forced to live in a world where something as inconsequential as the score of a baseball game can predict his physical well being - a world where no one gives a damn - Something’s gotta give.
Unfortunately, perhaps not for him, what may give is his sanity.
How does it feel like to be a ghost? To vanish? That too when you live in a world of pain?
Read Casper and find out.
Check out this book and more of Felix I.D. Dimaro here
'Being laughed at hurts no matter what the reason is. You wouldn't think that a sound that's supposed to indicate pleasure could cause so much pain.'
Written in a gripping and compelling manner, that I have already come to associate with Felix I.D. Dimaro, Casper deals with yet another way of turning a perfectly normal and kind human being into a monster.
Just as Dimaro's other stories, this one is also uncomfortable and a bit difficult to read at times. Because it sets the reader face to face with the darkest parts of human nature. No sugarcoating, hinting, or beating around the bush. No happy endings or candy-canes.
Just ... rip off the band-aid and display the festering wound type of truth. Difficult to accept at times and even to witness at others. Painful, unbearable, discomfiting and sadly... very real. This author is a master at laying it all out for everyone to see.
'Even Casper the Friendly Ghost got back at his mean old uncles from time to time right?'
And this is exactly what this particular novelette will show you here.
What do you do when you're constantly hurt, abused and also ignored? Do you get used to all of it after a while and learn never to get up again? Or do you do what even sweet little Casper did?
When a young boy is being both bullied at school and beaten at home; when he is forced to live in a world where something as inconsequential as the score of a baseball game can predict his physical well being - a world where no one gives a damn - Something’s gotta give.
Unfortunately, perhaps not for him, what may give is his sanity.
How does it feel like to be a ghost? To vanish? That too when you live in a world of pain?
Read Casper and find out.
Check out this book and more of Felix I.D. Dimaro here
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