Worst book I’ve read in a long time. The world building is so boring given the concept and there is no sense of scale whatsoever. The characters are flat and the dialogue is so cringey at some points it makes you wince or laugh. It truly does feel like this book was written by one..
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While an interesting concept this book has a severe lack of editing. There are many repeated phrases and words that become distracting and sort of irritating after awhile. The book has good bones and a good idea it just needed lots of revision and come off only half finished. Entire storylines were unnecessary and others..
This book was… gross. It’s an emetophobe’s worst literary nightmare. Especially the baby-birding between the two main characters at the end. I mean… what the heck?!? It’s extremely graphic when describing violence and vomit. There’s also definitely a sexual assault trigger warning needed. Dunno how I finished it, but I did… and I’m a little..
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or possibly Silent Hill. Revolting torture, existential dread, and a hearty dollop or heteronormative love-conqures-all dreck. Shocking to listen to, but I won’t be re-listening or checking out this author any further.
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really tough to get engrossed in the story as the narrator apparently believes he’s meant to be reading a bed time story. why is he whispering and speaking in the softest voice possible?
it starts off really great with the guy in the boat and the crab cage and the head in the water, I thought to myself. wow you have really landed on something exciting here. Nope. I have rewound it at least 15 times to try to keep up with the story, after that first chapter..
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I bought this book because it sounded intriguing; it is far from that. It is slow, meandering, and takes too long to give any inkling about what is going on. By the time you push through to find out what is actually happened, you don’t care. What the mystery comes to is anticlimactic. Don’t waste..
It started out strong and intriguing, it painted such gripping and horrifying visuals and then once you get to the story arc about muck it falls off HARD. Youre telling me nick is the only dude in thousands of years that’s actually tried to you know, axe someone? That’s all it takes to take several..
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This is the kind of horror novel an AI would write. It’s a collection of cliche scenes stitched together by a few oblique references to “the 90’s” that are so hackneyed and forced I’m not entirely convinced this wasn’t written by someone born after 9/11. Scenes are dragged out for intolerable lengths as characters repeat..
Here we have three different time periods. The earliest – the highschool years – we hear about mostly through the recollections of the characters. The middle time period is set in the 90s. Lots of references there, and if you’re genX, you’ll often find yourself saying “heh” out loud a lot. (Hey, remember blockbuster? And..