Hello. Today I'm writing about two books I've read recently. Here it is.

For school I was recently assigned a book report over Spring Break. You are supposed to read a book that matches your lexile score. Most books have a lexile score lower than my level so I went on the lexile website to look up some adult horror books, figuring that those books would have a high enough score and also keep me entertained. Unfortunately the website is so school-oriented that it didn't have any horror books on it scarier than Goosebumps, so I asked my teacher if I could go ahead and read The Silence of the Lambs. She said it was fine, so I picked up the book at a Barnes and Noble and dove into the world of Clarice Starling, Buffalo Bill, and Hannibal Lecter.

Clarice Starling is a student of the FBI. She's assigned to help catch Buffalo Bill, a horrible serial killer that kills and skins his victims. The murder victims are spread out and found in different rivers all over America, and they have little to no leads. In order to catch this killer Clarice has to consult someone that might be the most dangerous man in America, Hannibal the Cannibal. The Silence of the Lambs was an extremely good book and you are tense with action the entire time. The way Thomas Harris builds his characters is amazing and Hannibal and Buffalo Bill will leave you shaking. It's the best crime/horror novel I've ever read.

(SPOILERS)

Red Dragon is absolutely chilling. Red Dragon is the first book in the Hannibal series and Silence of the Lambs is the second. I read Silence of the Lambs first and read some about what had happened to Will Graham, the main character in Red Dragon. In Red Dragon Will is a very smart consultant of the FBI that has helped them catch serial killers before. He's asked to help them again when the Tooth Fairy appears, a killer that murders entire families. One of the conflicts in this book is wi himself. Will is tortured by the fact that he can catch these killers because it's so easy for him to think just like these horrible people do. Red Dragon is a terry flying start to the Hannibal series and shows the beginning of Hannibal Lecter. The Tooth Fairy killer is equally disturbing, and in my opinion worse than Buffalo Bill.

Since I've finished these two books so quickly I'm going to read the entire Hannibal series as my assignment and I may blog about he final two books, Hannibal and Hannibal Rising. Bye.


- By Ashton