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2.0
I love a story in the Cthulhu mythos with a fine chthonic deity. They don’t even have to be particularly well written. And Lord Cthulhu knows, many of them (maybe most) aren’t well written. Nevertheless, I enjoy them and read them.
So I was surprised when I just plain lost patience with this story. While I completed it, it was a hard to cross the finish line.
It is hard for me to place what exactly did not work for me. Perhaps if I gain greater clarity on the matter, I will come back to this review and add to it.
For now, all I can say is this- The characters never really came alive for me. I had difficulty caring about their concerns or pain. The bad guys were often chased with fantasy elements that seemed incongruous to the rest of the story. Most of them never seem to be all that bad. The number one and number two baddy never really seem to be all that terrifying to me for some reason. When he was including elements that sort of have to be there because it is a Lovecraftian story, it came off as dull and tired. When he was trying to break new ground, shake up the story, and make it more interesting I felt like the story was getting lost and slipping off the pages. More than a few times I found myself thinking that this story would have made a fine short story or novella, that it really didn’t need to be a full novel.
So I was surprised when I just plain lost patience with this story. While I completed it, it was a hard to cross the finish line.
It is hard for me to place what exactly did not work for me. Perhaps if I gain greater clarity on the matter, I will come back to this review and add to it.
For now, all I can say is this- The characters never really came alive for me. I had difficulty caring about their concerns or pain. The bad guys were often chased with fantasy elements that seemed incongruous to the rest of the story. Most of them never seem to be all that bad. The number one and number two baddy never really seem to be all that terrifying to me for some reason. When he was including elements that sort of have to be there because it is a Lovecraftian story, it came off as dull and tired. When he was trying to break new ground, shake up the story, and make it more interesting I felt like the story was getting lost and slipping off the pages. More than a few times I found myself thinking that this story would have made a fine short story or novella, that it really didn’t need to be a full novel.
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