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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
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
There were signs this was not going to go well. I wanted a ghost story. I got some kind of weird psychosexual fever dream that seems to have been written by an incel who has spent way too much time reading Freud.
Yes, there were signs where this was going. From a woman's horribly mutilated face being described as "vaginal" in appearance to a prosthetic arm that doubles as a sex toy.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not a prude. I enjoy well written adult literature as much as anyone. Heck, I have been known to sneak a trashy romance novel into my repitore from time to time. What I can not handle is a book that amounts to a white panic cuckold fantasy where the author is clearly simultaneously titillated and horrified by the images he conjurs of the protagonist's pure, white wife debauched by two black people. In the end, it really is just a gross book.
Yes, there were signs where this was going. From a woman's horribly mutilated face being described as "vaginal" in appearance to a prosthetic arm that doubles as a sex toy.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not a prude. I enjoy well written adult literature as much as anyone. Heck, I have been known to sneak a trashy romance novel into my repitore from time to time. What I can not handle is a book that amounts to a white panic cuckold fantasy where the author is clearly simultaneously titillated and horrified by the images he conjurs of the protagonist's pure, white wife debauched by two black people. In the end, it really is just a gross book.
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
A very good haunted house story with a deep subplot.
The progression of the supernatural phenomenon follow's the development of the relationship (or the remaking of that relationship) between Felix and Thomas, best friends navigating through a fallout.
The character building is incredibly good. The author brings us along a rollercoaster ride of weird, terrifying, and even grisly phenomenon that progressively gets worse and worse over the course of those twelve nights and through the distinct phases of relationship rebuilding.
Both Felix and Thomas are horror movie buffs much to the delight of all movie-buff-readers out there. I have a challenge for you, try to win the multiple horror movie wars they play, no cheating!
This has all the haunted house tropes, but they are presented in such a way that it doesn't feel cheesy or old. A very brilliant trick from the author.
Overall, it's a well build story with an ending that I did not expect at all.
This one is sticking in my mind, lingering like a spectacle, an entity from behind, a "full-torso-apparition casually looking up books in a library.”
I recommend this one to all the horror-movie-buffs out there, but also to all of you atmospheric, numinous, grim, spooky, hunted house fans.
The progression of the supernatural phenomenon follow's the development of the relationship (or the remaking of that relationship) between Felix and Thomas, best friends navigating through a fallout.
The character building is incredibly good. The author brings us along a rollercoaster ride of weird, terrifying, and even grisly phenomenon that progressively gets worse and worse over the course of those twelve nights and through the distinct phases of relationship rebuilding.
Both Felix and Thomas are horror movie buffs much to the delight of all movie-buff-readers out there. I have a challenge for you, try to win the multiple horror movie wars they play, no cheating!
This has all the haunted house tropes, but they are presented in such a way that it doesn't feel cheesy or old. A very brilliant trick from the author.
Overall, it's a well build story with an ending that I did not expect at all.
This one is sticking in my mind, lingering like a spectacle, an entity from behind, a "full-torso-apparition casually looking up books in a library.”
I recommend this one to all the horror-movie-buffs out there, but also to all of you atmospheric, numinous, grim, spooky, hunted house fans.
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
medium-paced
I really wanted to read a good haunted house story. While this was an ok story, it wasn't scary...at all. This would be a good one for readers who want a Spooktober book that is spooky but not terrifying.
This book. Wow wow wow wow wow. It is the best haunted house novel I have read in a long while, and it’s everything my “The Haunting of Hill House” (Mike Flanagan film phenom) lovin’ heart could yearn for!
I laughed, I soaked in every horror movie and Clue game reference with delicious delight, and as I read most of this in the darkness of parking lots while waiting on my kids’ soccer practices to end, I was scared in the most spectacular way. At one point my phone rang, and I jumped in my seat
I laughed, I soaked in every horror movie and Clue game reference with delicious delight, and as I read most of this in the darkness of parking lots while waiting on my kids’ soccer practices to end, I was scared in the most spectacular way. At one point my phone rang, and I jumped in my seat
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated