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3.55 AVERAGE
3.55 AVERAGE
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...Reading this book was one of the more enjoyable hour of my life. It's a short story so you can feel satisfied quickly. Whether you like or dislike the story, you know you didn't waste too much of your life in the process. That is my way of saying, give this book a chance! (ha)....
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...Reading this book was one of the more enjoyable hour of my life. It's a short story so you can feel satisfied quickly. Whether you like or dislike the story, you know you didn't waste too much of your life in the process. That is my way of saying, give this book a chance! (ha)....
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fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
mysterious
fast-paced
This was a weird one…
At first I really enjoyed it. It was giving The Omen or The Boy which sucked me right it. But my the ending i felt very unfulfilled?
Characters sort of stop coming up after a certain point and the twists seems like plot twists for the sake of plot twists rather than any other purpose.
I wish it was more of a proper “ghost story” “horror” book, like how it appears in the summary and with its dust cover, but it’s also not a long read. It doesn’t overstay its welcome.
And obviously, it’s really well written.
At first I really enjoyed it. It was giving The Omen or The Boy which sucked me right it. But my the ending i felt very unfulfilled?
Characters sort of stop coming up after a certain point and the twists seems like plot twists for the sake of plot twists rather than any other purpose.
I wish it was more of a proper “ghost story” “horror” book, like how it appears in the summary and with its dust cover, but it’s also not a long read. It doesn’t overstay its welcome.
And obviously, it’s really well written.
It was off to a wild start but didn’t live up to it. I did enjoy the gaslighting of it all.
So I really enjoyed Gone Girl and was interested when I saw the author was writing a ghost story. I've been in the mood to read something spooky for a while now and picked this up hoping it would hit the spot. It did, but in other ways it left me feeling a little disappointed. I guess the best way to explain what I mean is to talk about the story.
Right away we have an unreliable narrator in a literal sense: she is a con artist, currently pretending to be a psychic. She seems to pride herself on reading people, but that tendency goes out the window once she's taken to the "haunted house" in question. Either that or she chose to see things a certain way and never really tried looking beyond that. Maybe I just had a better vantage point as a reader, but I couldn't believe no internal alarm bells were going off in this woman's mind.
The overall tone of this story was actually pretty good. I enjoyed the narrator's perspective and there were some creepy, spine-tingling moments. The problem for me was in the ending. In Gone Girl, this author did not play into my expectations as a reader at all. She really surprised me with what happened, which is what made the book enjoyable. This one did pretty much exactly what I expected. For a few sentences, I thought it was going a different route after all, but nope. It went the predictable and expected route. How disappointing.
Don't get me wrong, it was an enjoyable read. But it ended up being pretty standard. I don't want to say too much else without spoiling. If you're a fan of this author's work, you'll probably enjoy it. But if you're hoping for something that'll defy expectations, this story will disappoint you.
Right away we have an unreliable narrator in a literal sense: she is a con artist, currently pretending to be a psychic. She seems to pride herself on reading people, but that tendency goes out the window once she's taken to the "haunted house" in question. Either that or she chose to see things a certain way and never really tried looking beyond that. Maybe I just had a better vantage point as a reader, but I couldn't believe no internal alarm bells were going off in this woman's mind.
The overall tone of this story was actually pretty good. I enjoyed the narrator's perspective and there were some creepy, spine-tingling moments. The problem for me was in the ending. In Gone Girl, this author did not play into my expectations as a reader at all. She really surprised me with what happened, which is what made the book enjoyable. This one did pretty much exactly what I expected. For a few sentences, I thought it was going a different route after all, but nope. It went the predictable and expected route. How disappointing.
Don't get me wrong, it was an enjoyable read. But it ended up being pretty standard. I don't want to say too much else without spoiling. If you're a fan of this author's work, you'll probably enjoy it. But if you're hoping for something that'll defy expectations, this story will disappoint you.