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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
dark
mysterious
tense
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
medium-paced
Thank you to @BerkleyPub and @netgalley for this e-arc copy. All thoughts are my own.
Alfred is the owner of the Hitchcock hotel which offers a unique Alfred Hitchcock experience.
To celebrate the hotel’s first anniversary, he invites his former best friends from his college Film Club for a reunion. He hasn’t spoken to them since that night sixteen years ago…
Now that they’re all together, they can help him finish his creation. After all, no Hitchcock set is complete without a body.
I loved a lot of things about this book! I particularly enjoyed how the flashbacks were done. They were seamless and well crafted. They took me back while knowing I was in the past, and all without clear chapter markers. This is a huge thing for me because normally I need the chapter markers to help, but in this case the writing was so seamless it just worked. This book is quite the slow burn with no real action taking place until about the 50% mark, then it is still a little slow to build momentum. I really did enjoy the twists this book presented. There were some great red herrings and had me thinking one way, then bam another thing happened, it was great. I don’t agree that this book is really horror, though maybe gothic horror but only really because of the pacing and Hitchcock references. I wasn’t even creeped out like I would have expected to be.
For me this book had some really awesome points, but some not so awesome points. However, I think those looking for an atmospheric yet slower read light on the horror but some thought provoking twists, will enjoy.
Alfred is the owner of the Hitchcock hotel which offers a unique Alfred Hitchcock experience.
To celebrate the hotel’s first anniversary, he invites his former best friends from his college Film Club for a reunion. He hasn’t spoken to them since that night sixteen years ago…
Now that they’re all together, they can help him finish his creation. After all, no Hitchcock set is complete without a body.
I loved a lot of things about this book! I particularly enjoyed how the flashbacks were done. They were seamless and well crafted. They took me back while knowing I was in the past, and all without clear chapter markers. This is a huge thing for me because normally I need the chapter markers to help, but in this case the writing was so seamless it just worked. This book is quite the slow burn with no real action taking place until about the 50% mark, then it is still a little slow to build momentum. I really did enjoy the twists this book presented. There were some great red herrings and had me thinking one way, then bam another thing happened, it was great. I don’t agree that this book is really horror, though maybe gothic horror but only really because of the pacing and Hitchcock references. I wasn’t even creeped out like I would have expected to be.
For me this book had some really awesome points, but some not so awesome points. However, I think those looking for an atmospheric yet slower read light on the horror but some thought provoking twists, will enjoy.
Learned a lot about Hitchcock, which was cool. Would have liked less exposition, and more of a slow dread factor since the mystery itself was pretty obvious. But still a fun read all in all.
A fun read for any Hitchcock fan. If you know Rebecca…you know where this is going.
mysterious
medium-paced
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
No
I went into this one with high hopes and it was rather mediocre.
I like the closed-door, murder mystery aspect in a Hitchcock themed hotel. That part is awesome. And I also liked overall motive and the twist towards the end — I admit it all did catch me by surprise but it wasn’t a jaw hitting the floor kind of moment.
I did not like the characters. Not a single one. They were not different enough, I honestly couldn’t tell them apart half the time.
And now this is just a personal issue but I do not like the male narrator. Before this book I had just finished another audio by the narrator and didn’t like it so I was super disappointed when I saw his name listed again.
Overall, a fun book in the moment but not memorable.
I like the closed-door, murder mystery aspect in a Hitchcock themed hotel. That part is awesome. And I also liked overall motive and the twist towards the end — I admit it all did catch me by surprise but it wasn’t a jaw hitting the floor kind of moment.
I did not like the characters. Not a single one. They were not different enough, I honestly couldn’t tell them apart half the time.
And now this is just a personal issue but I do not like the male narrator. Before this book I had just finished another audio by the narrator and didn’t like it so I was super disappointed when I saw his name listed again.
Overall, a fun book in the moment but not memorable.
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes