Crybaby Bridge – C.B. Jones

3.5/5 stars

Crybaby Bridge is a new take on the small town slasher trope, and it was a really cool twist on the genre! A book in a book, this is one man’s quest to write his next novel, and his wife who gives him exactly what he needs.

I enjoyed the style of this in that it was told through a series of interviews, almost like reading a script. It was a unique way to tell the story of The Massacre of Crybaby Bridge, though I think it did a slight disservice to the characters. I don’t feel like I got a good grasp of who these characters really were. The perspectives bounced around a lot, so it was a little hard to keep everyone and their personalities separate.

This book gave me a lot of nostalgia, though. Having grown up in a flyover state small town in the 2000s, I was there for the MSN Messenger chats, the clunky phones (though I had a Tracphone), and the need to do something when there’s nothing in town to do. Cruising town was a bit before my time, kids I went to school with met up and hung out in the high school parking lot, but I still had a lot of fondness for what the author described here.

I enjoyed reading Crybaby Bridge a lot, and a big thank you to the author for the review copy! I’m looking forward to reading “The Rules of the Road” now and seeing more of this suspicious DJ!