Genre: Horror / Coming of Age
Publisher: Scary Carpet
Publication Date: 22 July 2016
Pages: 162
REVIEWED BY NEV
A copy of Of Foster Homes
and Flies was sent to Confessions of a Reviewer by the author, Chad Lutzke,
in exchange for an honest review. This is said review. This book is published
by Scary Carpet.
This is a book that, to be honest wouldn’t have been on my radar
if it hadn’t been sent to me by Mr Lutzke for review. A mutual friend of ours,
and fantastic author in his own rite, James Newman, mentioned to Chad that he
should send me a copy. After a recommendation like that, it was hard for me not
to give it a whirl.
I knew nothing of Mr Lutzke before this book and had no idea what
he even wrote. Sometimes those are the best positions to be in when picking up
someone new.
This is what I thought.
Denny Newman lives alone with his mom. She loves her television
and the bottle more than she loves him. He gets by though. He knows how to look
after himself.
One morning he finds his mom dead, on her favourite seat, in front
of her favourite television, with an empty bottle of her favourite kind by her
side.
Denny is now in a panic. He has the spelling bee in a few days’
time. He knows if he reports her death he will end up in a home and miss the
bee. What should he do? Only he can decide.
So first of all, coming as a recommendation from Mr Newman, I was
expecting an out and out horror. This is certainly not an out and out horror.
This is a coming of age story that…….well let me go back to my normal format…
