Think Woodchuck

AllBooks Review's Lea Schizas writes that Think Woodchuck is the most chilling novel I have read in quite some time. Subterranean gloom suffuses this creepy tale of the implosion of a deranged mind. Fifteen-year-old Ian lives without electricity or water in a suburban house left to him by his mysteriously vanished parents. His grip on reality loosening he finds himself adrift in a hallucinatory netherworld plagued by phantoms--a menacing history teacher who seems to be able to read his mind and an old librarian whose books uncannily parallel his warped worldview. By turns mordant macabre and poignantMaxwell's first-person narrative situates readers within the claustrophobic confines of his protagonist's twisted head making Ian's demented logic understandable -- though no less horrifying -- as he follows it to a grisly conclusion. -KIRKUS DISCOVERIES