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The Reddening by Adam L.G. Nevill

1 review

rotfaced's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

This book was... Okay.  His descriptions can be very colorful.  Visceral and graphic at times, it still failed to deliver horror as I was hoping it would. There was a lot of reliance on exposition, especially up front, which dragged the pace down considerably; only half-way into the book did it seem like movement had become a focus, and even then, I wasn't drawn into the events until about 70% of the way through. There is a very poor balance of introspection versus action. Sometimes, there's pages of reflection between a characters movements in-scene. 2 stars because the plot did, eventually, prove to be somewhat entertaining and I was able to finish the book. 

Also-- and this is a big turn off-- I don't like how the author wrote the women in this story. He seems obsessed with pregnancy. No, really-- its a focal point of both of the main characters inner struggle, and

also happens to be a fixture of both the unknown enemies/"creel" and the matriarchal adversary

. Really skeeved me out. 

Please pay attention to the content warnings. While none of these things bothered me outright, I did not mark them as 'graphic' for no reason-- the author spares no expense when it comes to these triggers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Police brutality, Suicide, and Vomit

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Drug use