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Reviewed by Robin Goodfellow for Readers' Favorite
They Feed by Jason Parent is a horror story about how, despite everything we do to try to convince ourselves we’re justified in our actions, we still suffer the same consequences as everyone else, whether we know it or not, and that Death will always come for us. Tyler had recently shot and injured a young man. Just as he was dying, the young man had said that they were after him, that he had to escape. Unfortunately, however, Tyler was arrested for his murder and sentenced to prison. After serving six years in the Wichita State Penitentiary, he returns to the place where he shot that same man, only to stumble across a strange woman named Dakota. But what starts off as a dark act of judgement turns into something more when the two realize they’re being hunted. As bodies start piling up, and more people succumb to the predators that feed on them, Tyler, Dakota, and the others must try to find a way out of the nightmare in which they’ve unknowingly trapped themselves.
At first, I felt a bit sorry for Tyler. He was raised in an abusive home, and was in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. After he comes back, he gets kidnapped by Dakota, a woman who seems unable to take responsibility for her own actions, even if it meant dishonoring her brother’s memory. And finally, when he gets just a sliver of peace through people like Charlie and Frosh, I realized the awful truth of what he truly was, and what he’d been doing. I was shocked, simply because I thought he was innocent. But even then, he isn’t spared from that. Overall, the book is a good read. Despite some instances where there were a few horror cliches, Parent executed a stream of constant questions of morality and immaturity. He creates scenes where you almost suffocate, where you can’t help but wonder just who it was that looks out for these people. Parent describes a hell where everyone, both good and bad, no matter how invincible they may seem, will still be dragged under. I would recommend this book to those who enjoyed Tell Me When I’m Dead by Steven Ramirez and The Girl of Glass by Megan O’ Russell.
