"A hard kick in the shins you never saw coming. And wow, is it fun to read" - LitReactor Best of 2019 Pick "Cutting-edge horror, dark thriller, tragic coming-of-age story--they're all here but blended in a way that's entirely new." - Booklist starred review "Clever, nasty, thoughtful fun." - The Sunday Sport Review "Mark this one: most likely to give you nightmares." - Den of Geek "Short, snappy, and delightfully nasty." - The Book Bag "I never miss a book by the remarkable Daniel Kraus and Blood Sugar exceeds all expectation. A Stephen King tale told by a pidgin Artful Dodger, it's a twisted little miracle with a sneaking, beating heart." -- Megan Abbott "Cutting-edge horror, dark thriller, tragic coming-of-age story--they're all here but blended in a waythat's entirely new" - Booklist Starred Review "Full of suspense.

extremely gritty." - BookReporter "Blood Sugar is itself both a trick and a treat. Kraus's trick is in hiding a deeply emotional novel in the festive trappings of a Halloween story; the treat, of course, is the reward of reading something so gripping and, ultimately, rewarding." -Cemetery Dance "Evoking both Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries and Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, it's intimate and utterly engaging, a suspenseful glimpse into the desperate lives of its disadvantaged protagonists." -Mystery Scene "a very poignant and dark look at life in urban America" - Every Read Thing "an eye-opening look at what some have to do to survive. "-Library Journal "The perfect Halloween crime story. It's smart, sexy, and a heck of a lot of fun to read." - Warrendale (Detroit) Blog "a very clever but extremely dark story, very well told and easy to recommend for a good quick read" - Green Man Review "a well-crafted debut novel that impressed me with its powerful story" - Risingshadow.