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what i like about the Oath is that it freaky, beautifally written, and is just pure amazing. I got three used books today...YES!!! okay i am gonna post a review of Hangmans Curse by Peretti:





A school haunted by the suicide of a former student. A student cursing people whom he dislikes, by leaving a hangman drawing on their locker. Spider, poison, sound like a cheesy horror novel to you? Does it sound like something you would possibly find in the teen or kid section from an author who is only recently published and is trying to give you a scare? Well, the answer to both is yes, though the second one is partly wrong. Frank Peretti is a multiple time published author, in fact I would wager that he invented the concept of the Christian thriller/horror. He has few books for kids, the most well known of these are the Cooper Kids adventures, the less well known are the Veritas Project series, which include Hangman's Curse and Nightmare Academy.
Hangman's Curse is truly your stereotypical "horror" novel, with some more mature theme involved, of course. Hangman's curse is about a brother and sister and their parents. Unlike most families they bust drug rings, look into strange occurrences for the government, all from a biblical perspective. The book opens with them busting a meth drug ring. As the story progresses they end up in Oregon, trying to find out what is causing students to end up in the hospital in a coma. Along the way they meet a student who is involved in the occult, ironically he happens to be Goth. As it turns out he is not actually cursing them but having them bitten by poisonous spiders.
Like I said previously, in my introduction, it is a stereotypical cheesy horror novel. With all due respect to Mr. Peretti, an author whom I admire, this book is really, really dumb. It not only has a terrible, type-setting with boxes that contain part of the next page's dialogue, but the writing is just horrendous. If you are looking for a fun read, then yes this is a book to read, but if you are looking for a good read then this book should not be read. It is not frightening, and the way it is set up you know who the villain is, and again the writing is just not like Mr. Peretti's other novels. The opening lines of his novel Monster are better than the whole of Hangman's Curse combined. The whole concept seem poorly planned, is poorly written, and barely inches its way across the mediocre line to just-barely-better-than-mediocre.
Little kids may be frightened by this book. I first read it when I was eights, and i do not remember it frightening me. Parents who wish their children to be exposed to great Christian literature should let them read Mr. Peretti's Cooper Kid's Adventures, which are not great but infinitely better than Hangman's curse. Also parents will want to be forewarned, that despite being extremely tacky there are some intense scenes. This book does not shy away from dealing with the occult straight out, nor does it shy away from the evil that drugs are. I recommend this book to no one due to its terrible writing quality, and its cheesiness.