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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Unlike Cthulhu I have a few gripes with this one. I felt like some of the words were unnecessarily weird and thesaurus-y. Other parts of the story dragged just a hair. That’s me being nitpicky and comparing to another razor sharp lovecraft work, but this story is still one of the best I’ve ever read. I’m really enjoying seeing the lore of this universe unfold. It’s incredibly atmospheric and too scary for me to read at night.
What an excellent novel! Suspenseful, eerie, with great buildup to a climax, plus a twist in the end. This is Lovecraft at his finest.
After reading more than several Lovecraft stories, this one just feels more of the same. The ending is good, but I think it definitely could've been scaled down to a shorter story like his others. There's way too many dialect-riddled pages of lore dialogue that other characters give--something Lovecraft obviously looooved to write--but which are just frustrating to decipher, and my god so many descriptions of being chased through Innsmouth's streets and the typical "reader, it was horrible what I witnessed! just horrible!!!" droning of every Lovecraftian narrator.
The second Lovecraft book I have ever read. Something very refreshing hearing such "unspeakable abominations" being described by someone who has never seen a Video Nasty.
Truly creepy and delightful.
Truly creepy and delightful.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
so much better than the colour out of space (not to be confused with the colour of magic or the colour and the shape). felt much more legible. i think maybe it was because it’s a creepy town being investigated whereas the colour out of space was a much more singular location. but also it just read better
felt very spooky at times, i got the real feeling of going insane when trying to understand wtf zadok was saying. it was 20 paragraphs of really painful dialect writing and then just when i thought it was over there were another 25. it was genuinely spooky but god never again
fortunately there’s, hilariously, a translation on reddit (https://old.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/8a6ozt/i_cant_make_out_what_old_zadok_allen_says/dwwqcf5/)
my understanding is that the audiobooks are generally a better way to experience lovecraft but i’m sure i am not going to take that advice for the next book i read
i thought the protag got crazy pretty quickly at the end and maybe that could have been spread out a bit more, but i understand that most the book is a short period of time and the ending is sorta fast forwarding
but i love the random blurting out of nutso cthulhu speech; i really wish i could pull that off. just talking about whatever then going all ia-r’lyehl cihuiha flgagnl id ia! would be so great
felt very spooky at times, i got the real feeling of going insane when trying to understand wtf zadok was saying. it was 20 paragraphs of really painful dialect writing and then just when i thought it was over there were another 25. it was genuinely spooky but god never again
fortunately there’s, hilariously, a translation on reddit (https://old.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/8a6ozt/i_cant_make_out_what_old_zadok_allen_says/dwwqcf5/)
my understanding is that the audiobooks are generally a better way to experience lovecraft but i’m sure i am not going to take that advice for the next book i read
i thought the protag got crazy pretty quickly at the end and maybe that could have been spread out a bit more, but i understand that most the book is a short period of time and the ending is sorta fast forwarding
but i love the random blurting out of nutso cthulhu speech; i really wish i could pull that off. just talking about whatever then going all ia-r’lyehl cihuiha flgagnl id ia! would be so great
A slow build to a deep, terrifying story. Loved it.
One of the books in the Cthulhu Mythos that I have enjoyed the most thus far.
Unlike most of the books so far this one has quite a bit of action in first person. While it isn't the present day for the person much of the action is told like it could be.
Mythos was as good as usual. Ending was pretty great.
Unlike most of the books so far this one has quite a bit of action in first person. While it isn't the present day for the person much of the action is told like it could be.
Mythos was as good as usual. Ending was pretty great.