The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliot
This review is part of my review archive project and was written in December 2012. My goal is to eventually move most of my reviews here even if I'm 90 before I finish! The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliot Released March 2009 Dark Fiction | Goodreads | Amazon Source: Found At A Used Clothing Store "You have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You’re joining the circus. Ain’t that the best news you ever got?" Delivered by a trio of psychotic clowns, this ultimatum plunges Jamie into the horrific alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between Hell and Earth from which humankind’s greatest tragedies have been perpetrated. Yet in this place—peopled by the gruesome, grotesque, and monstrous—where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself. When he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vici...