Synopsis
" What if the coolest girl you’ve ever met decided to be your friend?
Art Barbara was sonot cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friendthought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses.
Okay, that part was a little weird.
So was her obsessive knowledge of a notorious bit of New England folklore that involved digging up the dead. And there were other strange things – terrifying things – that happened when she was around, usually at night. But she was his friend, so it was okay, right?
Decades later, Art tries to make sense of it all by writing The Pallbearers Club: A Memoir. But somehow this friend got her hands on the manuscript and, well, she has some issues with it. And now she’s making cuts.
Seamlessly blurring the lines between fiction and memory, the supernatural and the mundane, The Pallbearers Club is an immersive, suspenseful portrait of an unusual and disconcerting relationship." Via Amazon
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review
Overall, I really enjoyed this book. The characters were well fleshed out and the format was something I have never read before. It was cool to try to figure out what really happened and what was in Art’s head. I do recommend listening to the audio and following along in a physical copy if you can.
I think The Pallbearers Club will only work for a particular audience. There were times where it didn’t feel like a horror, and it didn’t feel like a thriller and those parts were a bit boring to me. However, there were some insanely creepy scenes in this book that will stay with me for a while. This is another book that I think needs a soundtrack. I loved all of the music references.
What really brought it up to 4 stars for me was the ending. The ending was worth the entire journey.
I recommend this book if
🍂 You are a fan of Paul Tremblay.
🍂 You like character-driven stories.
🍂 You like slow building stories.
🍂 Looking for a spooky season read that isn’t overly scary.
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