John Carpenter Presents Storm Kids: Sacred Hearts was one of those books where I looked at the cover, judged it, and decided to read it. I do that a lot and it tends to work out for me (in a good way).

This book is a spooky thriller that can stand alone (but I see is also part of a series). I easily understood this book without reading any of the others.

Basically, there's this weird monster who is living in the forest who makes friends with the lead characters. There's some devil worshipping, scary stories and monster fighting that will happen that will put the reader on the edge of their seat.

My summary for my thoughts on this book:
1. The whole "scary, evil thing in the woods" arc has been doing quite well in media lately. Add in the creepy old man and you've got one spooky introduction for a book.
2. The monster isn't super scary to me, he's rather cute. I think that's the point though!
3. Crazy monster fights - yeeeesssss.
4. It's a story of brotherhood.
5. Bloody, gory, R rated galore.

I would like to read more out of this series now! I quite enjoyed this one. It's more of a thriller than a horror, but I will take it!

Four out of five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Diamond Book Distributors for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange of an honest review. ( )

This was horrifically fun. :). So horror for kids can go all sorts of right and all sorts of wrong. There may be some parents who find that this is to “bloody” for their kids, but the story is very well done and I love the graphics. Everyone in town knows there is something off about the Franklin family, and the woods they live in. This story has such heart and such charm for something that would be classified as horror. I do think the ending is a little short and too quickly wrapped up, but kids wanting horror can not go wrong with this book. My nephew is 11 and I would fully let him read it. ( )