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Summer of Night

Dan Simmons

3.94 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

This was great! Amazing characters and brilliant horror scenes.

I did have some gripes in that there were some loose ends which weren't tied up so I still had some questions by the end, and I felt like the kids should have been aged up a bit. It felt a bit unbelievable that these kids doing all these things are only 11.

The writing was easy and comfortable, it was paced well so quite a quick read for a 600+ pages horror book.
adventurous dark hopeful inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

A perfect summer read. Spooky, funny, complex, surprising!! The best version of kids vanquish the beast i’ve ever read, an instant classic. Perfect pacing, kids with guns, 1000/10

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

slightly unsatisfying, took a long time to get interesting
adventurous dark sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Grossly overrated. The villains are presented with virtually no motivation. This novel felt like 600 pages of missed opportunities.

So yeah finished this today I must say it's a really good book. Now when I did start it I did think it has a lot of similarities to Stephen King's IT, you know preteen kids in the summer and evil forces you know all that but it's fantastic. It's slow starting at the beginning I must say that and I was tempted to put this down for a while but it did get better, a lot better and the ending, the build-up to the end in the last couple of chapters were absolutely Fantastic and really saved it from being a 3 star book. The Characters in the book you really do care about them too which is always MUST. I would definitely read it again and highly recommended just get through the first 150 pages