Found By Todd Rigney

Fifth grade was a much darker time for a lot of kids than we usually like to admit. The bullies were vicious, friends could turn on you without warning, and the people who were supposed to protect you didn't have a clue and only ever seemed to make things worse. Marty is one of the unlucky ones just trying to figure out how to live in what seems to be an unbearably hate-filled world. Oh, and his brother enjoys chopping off peoples' heads. Written in a believable kid's voice, Found manages to take the bleakness of childhood and ramp it up a few notches. Found I first discovered Found when I saw the film that it was based on. This was an excellent read with interesting characters and a story that just gets more twisted with each page. A very brutal coming of age horror tale. Todd Rigney Apart from some of the themes in this, it is the voice of 10 year old Marty that makes this book. It really does feel like you're in his head and get all his realistic hopes and fears.
Some of the themes and moments are quite extreme but it doesn't just come out of nowhere, you are well prepared for the things that come as the book slowly puts the pieces into place.
Hard to say that I enjoyed this book but it is a riveting, quick read. This is the MOST disturbing book I have ever read.
It’s really well written, made me feel the story deeply and I honestly couldn’t put the book down after starting it. It has one of the best opening lines ever.
I am just in shock. Not sure if I will ever recover or forget this extremely sick story.
I need a spiritual retirement, to read only books for kids for a whole year and to start singing Christmas carols right now just to try to overcome this story.

I feel weird giving 5 stars to such a disturbing and traumatic story but I think the book is genuinely good and it really accomplishes the objective of making you feel and live the story. Found Totally fucked up

Holy shit what a book! If you want to know the true depth of depravity, sickness, and perversion, look no further! This one has it all.

Told from the perspective of a 10 or 11 year old boy who has a seriously dysfunctional family. Two parents who are clueless. A mental nut of an older brother who has some serious racial hangups and thinks he's the next Jason Vorhees. The younger sibling, our main protagonist, well he's fed up with all the school and church bullies and being made to feel less than, he's got some issues too.

I was so entranced with the book I read it entirely in one sitting. This book is very easy to read and accessible. I would strongly discourage you from reading it if you're easily offended by topics like rape, incest, excessive violence, blood, gore, the n bomb being dropped several times, etc. This isn't one of the goriest splatterpunk novels out there as I've seen much worse but it'll still have you gasping for some much needed air by the 3rd or 4th hour when you've finished the book.



One of the best, if not the best short splatterpunk novels I've ever read. Todd Rigney

A quick, brutal (in a good way) read.

Found is the story of a boy who finds a severed head in his older brother's closet. It is at times terrifying, disturbing, and disgusting. It balance's extreme horror imagery with tension and outright terror at times. At times it almost feels like a thriller until the next horrific moment comes and you realize that this author is not playing around. It's a great book, though some of the more horrific moments are probably not for everyone (hell I'm still trying to decide if they were something I even enjoyed), and this is a very dark book. If you have a sensitive stomach or don't enjoy depressing stories, than this probably isn't for you, but if any of this sounds interesting to you, than it's worth a read. It's quick and if you're looking to be scared, disgusted, or disturbed (in the best sense) than this will fit the bill. English A very good book. I find it difficult to relate it in certain genre, this is can be coming-of-age, horror, contemporary prose or even extreme horror but most important that all true in his own hearts.

Didn't remember how exactly I stumble upon this book, it not in to-read in any of my goodreads friends, neither it too popular like author by oneself mentioned in his amazon:

Although a moderate critical success, the book never really found (cough) it's audience, due in part to my embarrassing lack of promotional skills.

or in somebody lists.

Anyway, when I started read it, I can't put it aside. Thus, it deserve much more readers than it have now.

Donald and Trevor's mom are looking at me. They're looking at me like I'm some sort of demented little monster that goes around bashing people's heads into the walls all the time. That's not true. I try to stay out of everyone's way so that stuff like this won't happen. I always seem to find myself surrounded by mean, ugly people. Like right now. Donald is ugly and mean. Trevor's mom is ugly and mean. And even though Mom's not that ugly, she certainly is mean sometimes.

That was - frankly speaking - just fucked up.
I don't see how people can watch these kind of horror films. My sister once told me that her friend watched a torture horror film on her 13th birthday. A few had nightmares following for days after it. These films aren't even enjoyable, not even one second of them. Sick.
Good book. His brother is a head collecting racist. Horror, Thriller, Ebooks 3.5 ⭐️This book had a good premise but the end left me with way too many ?’s. 136 I have never read a book that chilling as this one. There are a lot of books about serial killing, but nothing like this. A world of murder and violence through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy who is obsessed by horror movies, the degradation of his mind, and the collapse of the daily comfortable life, all is put in such a slow and gripping manner, that it will stay with you forever. I am starting to think that the author really had a serial killer brother who keeps heads in his room! Kindle Edition

Marty is the ideal fifth grader. He gets good grades, listens to his teachers, and doesn't start trouble in class.But there's a darkness settling over Marty's life.The kids at school won't stop picking on him, his family life lacks any sort of structure, and his estranged older brother collects severed heads in his bedroom closet. And when Marty's not working on countless comic books of his own design, he's filling his head with the lessons only low-budget horror movies can provide. Join Marty as he attempts to find himself amidst the chaos of his everyday life, where severed heads roll like bowling balls and horror movies might just save your life. Found