My Ex, the Anti-Christ by Craig DiLouie

 

My Ex, the Anti-Christ by Craig DiLouie - 416 pages

From Bram-stoker award nominated author Craig DiLouie comes a horror novel with a twisted tale of love, heartbreak, and the apocalypse. We all have bad exes. Lily Lawlor's just happens to be the antichrist. Sometimes, love can be hell...1998: A punk band is formed by Lily Lawlor and Drake Morgan. Drake inspires faith in some. Fear in others. Lily is a believer.

1999: A Battle of the Bands ends in a shocking death, and a riot that claims the lives of three teenagers.

2009: At the height of her stardom, Lily walks into a police station and confesses to murder.

Now: The band has refused to talk to the press about the night of the riot, Lily’s confession, or anything else. It's been over a decade, but Lily has finally agreed to an interview. And the band is following her lead.

What follows is a story of prophecy, death, and apocalypse. A story about love and love lost. A story about the antichrist. Maybe it’s all true. Maybe none of it is.

Either way, this is their story. And they’re sticking to it.

This was an interesting story, told in interview format, where each band member is being interviewed so that the story slowly unravels itself.  While I don't think it was as good as Episode Thirteen, it was still entertaining, and unusual for sure. 

Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie

 

Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie - 467 pages

Fade to Black is the newest hit ghost hunting reality TV show. Led by husband and wife team Matt and Claire Kirklin, it delivers weekly hauntings investigated by a dedicated team of ghost hunting experts. Episode Thirteen takes them to every ghost hunter's holy grail: the Paranormal Research Foundation. This brooding, derelict mansion holds secrets and clues about bizarre experiments that took place there in the 1970s. It's also famously haunted, and the team hopes their scientific techniques and high tech gear will prove it. But as the house begins to reveal itself to them, proof of an afterlife might not be everything Matt dreamed of. A story told in broken pieces, in tapes, journals, and correspondence, this is the story of Episode Thirteen -- and how everything went terribly, horribly wrong. 

This is written as the show is being produced so it took a bit for me to get used to the format.  Reading each characters' diary entries, production notes, hot copies, etc.  It was a bit slow to get into the story but once the action started it was fantastic!  If you're into horror, paranormal, and/or ghost hunting this is a great book!