When people ask me for proof that "old" adults can enjoy young adult fiction, this is the kind of book I point them to. The thrills in this rivaled any adult crime suspense novel on the market and was a lot of fun.

Things are getting intense with how this one ends!

Now Jazz's father is on the loose because of something Jazz did and there is another serial killer besides Billy and the cops want his help.

Billy has a game in mind and he wants to not only use Jazz but his girlfriend Connie as well and Jazz's friend gets involved in things too. This was pretty wild and can't wait to get to the third book to see how things end!

Game: I Hunt Killers (Book 2) by Barry Lyga

532 Pages
Publisher: Little Brown Books for Young Readers
Release Date:

Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Serial Killer

Jasper “Jazz” Dent, seventeen years old, is the son of famous serial killer, Billy Dent. In the first book, Billy escapes from jail and flees. Since Jasper was raised by Billy, he thinks like a criminal. He was able to help the local sheriff solve a case. Now he is off to New York to help them with a serial killer. The killer picks random victims and carves either a dog or a hat into them. There is no pattern and now the killings are escalated.

The book has a fast pace, the characters are developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. Jazz is like a child prodigy profiler. His fear is that he will become a killer like his father. This book was like reading an episode of Criminal Minds. I enjoyed this book so much, I went back and read the first and third books in the series. If you like suspense detective stories, you will enjoy this book.

When I first read We Hunt Killers, the ending left me begging for more. Quite literally. A few months after reading the first book in this series I met Barry Lyga at The Teen Book Festival in Rochester. At that time Game had not yet been announced. I begged him for a sequel and he just winked at me as he scribbled in my book. When I went home and read what he wrote I yelled! He had confirmed the sequel! And Game did not disappoint! It is more of a typical thriller and we learn more about the characters we grew to root for in We Hunt Killers. I couldn't put it down!

This book was both fantastically written and horribly disturbing. The mystery was compelling, as was the psychology. Though sometimes completely grossed out, I was also thoroughly captured, and didn't want to put it down until the mystery was solved.

The Violence, The Gore, The Eeew:

Yeah...this book goes there. It has some pretty intensely detailed scenes of death-by-serial-killer. I'd say it's one of the, if not THE most violent book I've read. Some of that is coming second hand (seeing the bodies after the killings), and some is first hand, from the mind of the killer. If you are squeamish, this will definitely bother you. For me, the details didn't really bother me. I don't get too grossed out by that stuff. I'm usually impacted more by the mind of a killer than the actual violence, if that make any sense. I actually found this book to be pretty realistic. So, it's one of those times when, if heavy crime-violence bothers you, don't read it. If you like crime-solving things like this, you will not be disappointed

I read the first book, I Hunt Killers, many moons ago and liked it fairly well but Wow this part has that one beat hands down! Totally more dark and mysteriously thrilling! The number of pages made me shy away from it for a while but I finally am glad I conquered it because I flew thru it! It was really "That Good"!

I can see the appeal of this title, especially with the whole thriller/detective thing going on, but for some reason I couldn't really get into it as much as other readers have. It's not bad, it's written pretty well, but I guess I wasn't in the mood or headspace for this one. Didn't make a connection with the characters which is probably why I didn't care for them much. But I can see why people like it though. It's definitely for those who enjoy detective mystery thrillers or even true crime.

Sorry again this book/series is just to juvenile for me. Don't know what I was expecting but not what I read.

I had not requested this title - it was auto-loaded to my shelf by the publisher and I have chosen not to read/review at this time.

Netgalley has required me to leave a rating in order to give feedback so I chose the 5 star.

Thank you

I AM SO EMBARRASSED ... JUST NOW FINDING THIS ONE ON MY KINDLE/AMAZON. WAS NEVER READ SO NO REVIEW COMING AT THIS LATE DATE. MY SINCERE APOLOGIES.

Sorry I was not able to read you book but it went to archive before I could get to it. Sorry once again.