Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A quick, dread-laden read

I've read some reviews here that mention that Offspring contains the same basic plot as "Off Season", and well yeah, it sure does. But so does about a thousand other horror offerings from Richard Laymon's "Midnight's Lair" and Tobe Hooper's classic "Texas Chainsaw Massacre."What makes Ketchum's "Off Season" and "Offspring" different is Ketchum's strong prose and great characterizations. Ketchum can make characters come alive with a few simple sentences enough to make an impact when bad things happen to the good people in the novel. And when bad things happen to bad people, you're both satisfied that justice has been served but repulsed by the horrors that happen."Offspring" may not blow you away some of Ketchum's other work does (i.e. "Girl Next Door"), but it is an exercise in mounting dread and quickly turned pages. If you enjoyed "Off Season", there's more than enough here to keep you entertained.