Rotters - Daniel Kraus

Rotters

By Daniel Kraus

  • Release Date: 2011-04-05
  • Genre: Horror, Monsters & Ghosts
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 12 Ratings

Description

From the New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall, The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro, Scowler, and more, comes Rotters.

Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his single mom. For the most part, Joey's life is about playing the trumpet and avoiding the daily humiliations of high school.
    
Everything changes when Joey's mother dies in a tragic accident and he is sent to rural Iowa to live with the father he has never known, a strange, solitary man with unimaginable secrets. At first, Joey's father wants nothing to do with him, but once father and son come to terms with each other, Joey's life takes a turn both macabre and exhilarating.
    
Daniel Kraus's masterful plotting and unforgettable characters make Rotters a moving, terrifying, and unconventional epic about fathers and sons, complex family ties, taboos, and the ever-present specter of mortality.

Reviews

  • Literally My Favorite Book

    5
    By GalacticPizzaChain
    I first read this book in 7th grade, and to say I was obsessed with it would be an understatement. I felt so connected to the main character and his story. I’ve read this book three times now and it loses none of the captivating charm it strangled me with then. And that is again not an understatement. Daniel Kraus has gone on to write a couple more of my favorite books, the Zebulon Finch series. All of these books shaped who I am, and I don’t know if I should thank Kraus or what.

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