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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
The author was fantastic at building the suspense and clearly outlining the horror. I felt the audiobook possibly didn’t let me completely absorb the true horror and build up and it would have scared me more if I had chosen to read it paperback, in bed, at night. Many other reviews suggested the first 75% is spectacular but the last 25% fumbles to the conclusion. I think I regret not having read it paperback and missed the opportunity to really absorb its scene-setting and horror building.
Though it has taken me a while to read this book, it is was worth those hours.
The detail in setting the story brought the book to life and leaves the reader wondering what is really in the darkness.
A great book and I look forward to my next one by Mr. Nevill.
The detail in setting the story brought the book to life and leaves the reader wondering what is really in the darkness.
A great book and I look forward to my next one by Mr. Nevill.
3.5/5. Last chapter was too long to give a satisfying ending. I was dragging the last 75 pages.
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I love cult horror and I've been dying to read a Nevill book for a while because I've heard so many good things. I'm kind of mixed on how I feel about this book. I loved the first half. It genuinely read like a horror movie to me. I even had a jump scare in there at one point where I was reading super late at night in the dark and I was like "aaah help" but then the book just kept going... and going... and going.
I don't think this needed to be over 500 pages long. It took me forever to read. At some point I just wanted it to end so I could see what happened, but I wasn't actually enjoying the process of reading it anymore.
I love cult horror and I've been dying to read a Nevill book for a while because I've heard so many good things. I'm kind of mixed on how I feel about this book. I loved the first half. It genuinely read like a horror movie to me. I even had a jump scare in there at one point where I was reading super late at night in the dark and I was like "aaah help" but then the book just kept going... and going... and going.
I don't think this needed to be over 500 pages long. It took me forever to read. At some point I just wanted it to end so I could see what happened, but I wasn't actually enjoying the process of reading it anymore.
this book started out SOOOOOO strong, and then just drops the ball. the first third is so engaging, the author is so descriptive with scenery, nothing is left for the imagination. the story is so good, the suspense is killer, everything is going so well and then it just loses it. the last third goes off into this new weird and unbelievable path, and the ending becomes so weird, you have to stop and wonder how you ended up here.
This scared the living hell out of me several times. I stopped reading for the night and walked into my dark bedroom and felt extremely unsettled on my first reading session. I was not a huge fan of the tonal shift in The Ritual so I was hesitant to give this book a shot but I am glad I did. It was the scariest book I’ve read for a long time(maybe ever?)
If this book had ended around page 300, it would have been AMAZING. Instead, there were 200 more pages of explanation that I simply could not care less about, an ending that I didn’t particularly care for, and a cliff hanger that was super boring.
The first 300 pages of cult interviews, mysterious hauntings, eerie vibes, etc. was legit unsettling. I was spooked and I loved it. I really didn’t feel like there was a need to find explanation for the evil big bad things, which would have been scarier if they hadn’t been explained away. Five stars for the first 300 pages, but the absolute slog of a second half pulled this down to two stars overall for me.
The first 300 pages of cult interviews, mysterious hauntings, eerie vibes, etc. was legit unsettling. I was spooked and I loved it. I really didn’t feel like there was a need to find explanation for the evil big bad things, which would have been scarier if they hadn’t been explained away. Five stars for the first 300 pages, but the absolute slog of a second half pulled this down to two stars overall for me.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
3.75 stars
I was immediately pulled in by this story from the very first page and despite its page count it kept me very engaged. This is probably the top 3 scariest books I’ve ever read and the imagery was so vivid I was honestly scared to sleep at night LOL. I loved how fleshed out and detailed the lore and backstory of the cult was, it felt so real and this would make an amazing limited series. The depth was also to its detriment at times when you have to read pages of exposition and it disrupts the narrative tension. I’ll be thinking about this book for a while and might be convinced to read this author’s other books.
I was immediately pulled in by this story from the very first page and despite its page count it kept me very engaged. This is probably the top 3 scariest books I’ve ever read and the imagery was so vivid I was honestly scared to sleep at night LOL. I loved how fleshed out and detailed the lore and backstory of the cult was, it felt so real and this would make an amazing limited series. The depth was also to its detriment at times when you have to read pages of exposition and it disrupts the narrative tension. I’ll be thinking about this book for a while and might be convinced to read this author’s other books.