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awesomelybadbooks's review against another edition
2.0
This horror novel takes place in two different timelines - 1988 and 2005. In 1988, the Conroy family utilizes The Book of the Dead to perform a ritual in order to achieve an afterlife together. The patriarch of the family Benjamin - preaches in his church on Sundays and worships Osiris the rest of the time - believes that Jesus Christ performed the ritual to rise from the dead after his crucifixion. On the day he performs a ritual on his youngest son’s first Birthday, something goes very wrong. What amounts to a blood bath ensues. In 2005, Johnny Petrie receives a letter in the mail from a lawyer letting him know he has inherited a house and land from one Benjamin Conroy. Another blood bath ensues. This book tries to be too shocking and is very heavy on blood and body horror. On one hand, I appreciate the novel for being open about those shocking moments, but the characters were just meh and the story probably could have either stayed in one timeline or the other and been a bit more cohesive. Or this probably would have been better split up as two separate books to create a duology. It was mostly just average for me!
ladiicatherine's review against another edition
2.0
This horror novel takes place in two different timelines - 1988 and 2005. In 1988, the Conroy family utilizes The Book of the Dead to perform a ritual in order to achieve an afterlife together. The patriarch of the family Benjamin - preaches in his church on Sundays and worships Osiris the rest of the time - believes that Jesus Christ performed the ritual to rise from the dead after his crucifixion. On the day he performs a ritual on his youngest son’s first Birthday, something goes very wrong. What amounts to a blood bath ensues. In 2005, Johnny Petrie receives a letter in the mail from a lawyer letting him know he has inherited a house and land from one Benjamin Conroy. Another blood bath ensues. This book tries to be too shocking and is very heavy on blood and body horror. On one hand, I appreciate the novel for being open about those shocking moments, but the characters were just meh and the story probably could have either stayed in one timeline or the other and been a bit more cohesive. Or this probably would have been better split up as two separate books to create a duology. It was mostly just average for me!
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