What the hell did I just read A novel of cosmic horror

David, John, and Amy are back in their third adventure (after This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It, 2012), and it's as snarky, bleak, and funny as one could hope for. The narrative starts with a high-speed car chase and never slows down, racing headlong at a breathtaking pace. Children are being kidnapped; the Big Bad is a shape-shifter; and there's an abandoned mine, a motorcycle gang, and yet another mysterious black-cloak organization. Our heroes remain hilariously incompetent and incredibly lucky. Then things get really weird. This book is a mind-trip, messing with the characters' heads and making the reader question reality right alongside them. These are established characters, so readers shouldn't look for much development. It's also a bit too fast-paced: it's easy to miss details that need to be remembered later. Although it's not the strongest entry in the series, it's exciting and a great deal of fun, which is really what Wong's fans want.--Keogh, John Copyright 2017 Booklist

Living in a Midwest town known for attracting aliens and monsters, paranormal investigators Dave, John, and Amy are used to being called when the unexplainable or supernatural occurs. This time it is a missing child case. Little Maggie was taken by a menacing man named Nymph-or was she? The trio are soon chasing down parasitic monsters that alter one's brain, while dodging a government investigatory team that doesn't have much respect for Dave and John's methods, which admittedly involve drugs, weaponized sex toys, and improvisation. VERDICT Introduced in John Dies at the End and last seen in This Book Is Full of Spiders, Wong's (pen name of Jason -Pargin) irreverent protagonists return in another action-packed horror adventure full of crude but effective humor. For fans of the humor website Cracked.com, of which Pargin is executive editor. [See Prepub Alert, 4/10/17.]-MM © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.