I must first say I am a huge Jack Ketchum fan.  Read all his book and “Ladies’ Night” was the last one.

After two chapters I was lost.  I even had to look up his book on Amazon and Barnes and Noble to see if maybe it was a short story book or if it really was meant to be a complete story.

By the fifth chapter there still isn’t anything that ties the chapters together.  We aren’t introduced to any of the characters, unless you count telling us their names an introduction.

By page 74 I knew that if I were to put the book down and never pick it up again nothing would be lost.  I wouldn’t be left wondering how the book ended, or who was still alive/dead.  It really is that bad.

The only real exciting part about this book is that I caught at least two glaring typos that made me stop and re-read the sentences over and over.  With this book, not such a good thing.

Overall, I was hugely disappointed by this “story”.  It’s in quotes because it doesn’t have a plot.  Nothing.  The entire book is full of knifings, killing, and utter mayhem.  But since you really don’t know the characters you don’t tend to care what happens to them.  Okay he died, next… This reminds me a “story” an angry teenager would write.  Lots of blood and guts, but no real substance.