Carnival of Terror

By: William Joseph

Narrated by: Michelle Araya

Welcome to the most spectacular, heart-racing, entertaining, and deadliest show you’ll ever hear.

Ever want to see what happens after you leave the circus and the show is over? Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes? Have you ever wanted to see the darkest side of human nature? Then step right up, enter, and be prepared to have your breath taken away - literally.

Victor, Jug, the Fortune Teller, Shilo, and Olivia. A horrifying, graphic, and pulse-pounding, five-part novel from five different points of view, in one interconnecting story, and surrounding one circus.

Welcome to the Carnival of Terror.

©2019 William Joseph (P)2022 William Joseph

Beware of the Carnival

Do you like Carnivals? Do you like crazy scary Carnivals? Then you're gonna like this one.

William Joseph takes us on a journey of a mobile Carnival. The story is told from different perspectives and I think that really made the story unique.

First we are introduced to a couple that decides to enjoy a day at the Carnival in town. Unfortunate for this couple, the Carnival is not what it seems and, well, sometimes when you lose something valuable, you just need to take that L.

Next we see things through a runaway who decides that joining the Carnival is a way to keep moving further from his life as possible. Once he's invited to join the team, he starts planning "The Takeover".

Lastly, a young girl who was seen in an old woman's vision. She becomes a target and doesn't understand why. But we the readers, we know why and we get to see everything unfold.

Mr. Joseph will make you never want to visit a traveling Carnival. His detail in how things go down will make you think twice when it comes to enjoying something that's only around temporarily.

I was lucky to win an Audio version of the book while I was mid-read and I enjoyed it very much. Michelle Araya did a great job in the narration.

Story is decent, voice acting killed it

This story is good, but may have been better if the plot was flipped around. By that, I mean that seeing the main character being pursued before a flashback of what was happening first. the only thing that really took me out of this story was the voice actor. This book needed the ability to have multiple voices for all of the characters, yet I felt it was being read by a teenager. Very monotone with no emotion. So that alone made it really hard to feel tension or anything else. Pretty bummed about this.