The book starts off with horror and ends with even worse horror. After reading "Endless Nights," however, I just might jump on the Laymon happy go lucky bandwagon after all! I mean, I had heard he was the greatest thing this side of horror, but just wasn’t feeling it. I have to say I was disappointed reading "Body Rides" with Laymon. Lots of wonderful pervy scenes, lots of wonderful gory scenes and a nice fast-paced, sicko type story to get you all geared up for halloween. If you haven't read any Laymon before then you're in for a treat, and if you have then you know just what kind of treats you're going to get, so it's win-win all the way. There's a slight difference with this story though since the chapters alternate between the Jody/Andy viewpoint and one of the Krulls' viewpoints, a real sicko called Simon. We follow Jody, who's a typical Laymon protagonist, young, beautiful, sexy etc, and a young boy she's babysitting called Andy. This one is about a group of guys calling themselves the Krulls after a group of cannibal killers in a slasher novel(I wonder if that's a real novel?) that spend their time snatching young ladies and raping, torturing and killing them, and all for kicks. There's plenty of wonderful descriptions of girls body's and clinging clothes, and the usual gore is there too, in droves. If you've read any Richard Laymon at all then you know what to expect.
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