Joey R.'s Reviews > The Twisted Ones

3.0 stars— I spent my childhood reading horror stories from Stephen King and Dean R. Koontz so I still enjoy reading a good horror/supernatural book from time to time. Unfortunately, despite loving the author’s writing style and ability, the story itself wasn’t for me. “The Twisted Ones” centers around Melissa who agrees to clean out her hoarder, dead grandmother’s home so that her father can sell it. Melissa is written in a very believable and likable way that had me rooting for her throughout a story that got weirder and crazier the longer it went. When Melissa finds some rambling writings by her late stepfather about twisted people which coincide with Melissa herself discovering some strange beings in the woods and around her house the “horror” part of the story begins. Unfortunately for me, the whole foundation of the book with scary rock creatures inhabiting strange worlds was ridiculous and I couldn’t get into the book. I continued reading because Melissa and her feisty older neighbor, Foxy, were such humorous, well drawn out characters I had to know what happened to them. Maybe I read “The Stand” by Stephen King too many times, but this book gave the same vibes as it but not near the same quality storyline. With that being said, I will definitely read T. Kingfisher again as her ability to write believable characters with a sharp sarcastic sense of humor is as good as I’ve read for a very long time. I am hoping that if her writing is that intelligent and funny in all of her books that I will latch on to the plot of the next book and a 5 star read will be the result.