An UnderratedRead Revisited: Serial Killers: Horror and Murder: Scary and True Stories of the Most Terrifying Serial Killers the World has Ever Seen! – Frank C. Chastain

Posted on October 18, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) Don’t be fooled by the book cover! You may think it was taken right out of a tabloid headline. No, Serial Killers takes a mostly objective look at some of the world’s darkest and most notorious serial killers. The author first goes into some of the common characteristics and psychological traits…

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An UnderratedReads Revisited:The Axeman – Ray Celestin

Posted on October 15, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) The following  was submitted to the Times-Picayune on May 6, 1919. "...I am not a human being, but a spirit and a demon from the hottest hell. I am what you Orleanians and your foolish police call the Axeman. When I see fit, I shall come and claim other victims. I…

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The Skin Room – Morgan Fleetwood

Posted on October 11, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “…I was already imagining her insides ---I am not one to stop at the body naked. My imagination ran behind the flesh, into the pulp. I imagined her glistening innards, her yellow and purple heart, the cool pink exit of her colon.”   Alex Melville: 32 years old, freelance translator, serial…

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An Underrated Read Revisited: Rupert: A Confession – Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, (Translated by Michele Hutchison )

Posted on October 8, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “She was my martyrdom, my masochism, and my sugar-sweet, shimmering Mira. She appeared like a reflection before my eyes the first time I saw her, she killed me when she was mine, and she finally brought me back to life when she’d murdered me for good." Rupert: A Confession is sordid…

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: Mother Of – Lauren Coffin

Posted on October 6, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) Meredith Mayes is facing the unthinkable. Her husband and son died in a car crash ten years ago. Now, her other son Percy has been penned with the nicknames “The Minor Street Monster”, “The Ann Arbor Assassin” and “The Michigan Strangler”. Percy tortured and killed twelve women from 1993 through 2013…

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An UnderratedRead Revisisted: The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories – Carlos Velázquez (Translated by Achy Obejas )

Posted on October 4, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “The sacrilege I’d committed two hours earlier of breaking dozens of records proved irrelevant. The Cowboy Bible didn’t respond either. I tore at it, implored it, cursed it, and still failed.” These are the words of a luchador and in this opening story “The Cowboy Bible”. In this case the bible…

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The Delivery – K.M. Halpern

Posted on September 28, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Was it better to be sad in a world that made sense or happy in a world that did not.” When forty-six-year-old Wilbur came home from work one day, his grumpy, over-bearing wife Sarah informed him that he received a heavy crate, of which the delivery men brought down to the…

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: The Third Hotel: A Novel – Laura van den Berg

Posted on September 24, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “The foundation of horror is a dislocation of reality, a dislocation designed to reveal the reality that has been there all along, and such dislocations happen all the time. “ That was according to the fictional Yuniel Mata, director of Revolución Zombi , the first horror movie ever made in Cuba.…

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Things I Have Withheld – Kei Miller

Posted on September 20, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “…the place where I have always felt most comfortably gay is in Jamaica. In Jamaica, I know the language and the mannerisms of queerness. In Jamaica, I know how to dance. In Jamaica, I do not have to constantly translate my sexuality into mannerisms and speech and dances that sometimes feel…

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In Celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month

Posted on September 18, 2021 by J D Jung

( by JD Jung) To commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15) in the United States, we at UnderratedReads want to re-introduce you to a sample of the exceptional "underrated" books written by Latin American authors that we have featured on our site. We are also including two memoirs written by Mexican…

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