Twenty-four years later, Trevor, Randy and Carl return to Grimshaw, after the suicide of their friend, Ben. The Thurman house has always been seen as “haunted” by locals, the house abandoned years before that now sits vacant, visible from Ben’s bedroom window. Trevor, Randy, Ben and Carl grew up together playing hockey in their small, Canadian town, forging their friendship with ice hockey, mischief and the House Across the Street. They are best discovered as they are served.Įxcellent read, and well deserving of the King comparisons. There are so many turns of phrases that I found so wonderful and unique that I would love to share them here, but I hate putting quotes in reviews out of context. Just as Trevor is discovering the body in the crawlspace This morning as I was nearing the finish, I was lying on the couch where the telephone is over my head. Like King, he writes kids great, and also writes them great as adults. Well, I guess if Pyper can be accused of anything, it would be a wonderful portrayal of four young friends in a creepy setting, and a revisit of the town's Bad Thing in their adult years. I had only glazed over reviews, only because I wanted to avoid the chance of spoilers (generally negative reviews tend to be rife with them), but from what I can gather, some people have called this a knock off of Stephen King's IT or The Body. I am shocked at the average rating of this book. It almost got to the point where I was going to take it off my list altogether. Every time I was deciding what to read next, I would come to this and be cooled by the 3.52 rating. So I got on to Goodreads and added it to my to-read list. I had first heard of this book by reading a glowing review for it in a newspaper, perhaps The Globe and Mail.

The Guardians by Andrew Pyper