The Namaste Slasher – Alan Shivers

3.5 stars

The Namaste Slasher was a really fun read! It helped to distract me from some really heavy stuff going on right now and gave me some new things to think about in the slasher genre!

The thing that Shivers did that I liked the most was the different perspectives throughout the book. There’s a certain safety in reading a character’s point of view because you know that they can’t be killed. Shivers takes that safety and tosses it in the woodchipper! No one is safe from the Namaste Slasher…

I’ve never read a book that kind of turns the trope on its head a little, and reading The Namaste Slasher was such a fun, unique experience. I grieved, laughed, stared in horror, scowled, all within the scope of around 230 pages!

However, the appearance of the slasher felt extremely random. Maybe that was intentional, but it threw me off a little, and I wasn’t able to take the book as seriously as I could have. As the book progressed, events seemed to happen at very convenient times that just so happened to move the plot along without much lead up.

I’m really interested in seeing where this series goes, and I’m so excited to read Killer Vocals (and maybe find out what happened to certain someones???)