Title:
The Chalk Man
Author:
C.J Tudor
Rating:
2.75/5 stars
Pages:
368
Date
read: 8 November 2018
Format:
Paperback
“Being an adult is only an illusion. When it comes
down to it I’m not sure any of us ever really grow up.”
Let’s start off with
what the story is about.
In
1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They
spend their days biking around their sleepy little English village and looking
for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code;
little chalk stick figures they leave for each other as messages only they can
understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered
body, and nothing will ever be the same.
In 2016, Eddie is fully grown, and thinks he's put his past behind him. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. When it turns out his other friends got the same messages, they think it could be a prank . . . until one of them turns up dead. That's when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all those years ago.
In 2016, Eddie is fully grown, and thinks he's put his past behind him. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. When it turns out his other friends got the same messages, they think it could be a prank . . . until one of them turns up dead. That's when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all those years ago.
I have to stay that I
had really high hopes for this book, but sadly it was just okay.
The opening of the
book hooked me right away. But that lasted for like 20 pages. It felt like I was waiting for something to happen. .
. the… whole… entire… book. And finally stuff happened, but it didn’t feel like
something was happening.
To
get a little bit of positivity in this review I have to say the writing style
was very good. Also the concept of the story was very unique just not very well
executed.
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