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3.44 AVERAGE
3.44 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
The book was quite intense! I'm not a horror film kind of person, so this book was definitely out of my comfort zone, but I enjoyed the suspense! In books, you don't get the jump scares and musical buildup, so they're much easier to get through!
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is my first book by this author. It is told in third person and follows Laura. Each chapter is preceded by various excerpts from scripts, quotes about the films from relevant publications, etc. Laura sometimes blacks out and can’t remember what happened making her a bit of an unreliable narrator. She has suffered from a great deal of trauma from the events surrounding the movie she starred in as a child as well as the strain of being a child actor and all that entails from paparazzi to obsessed fans who confuse fiction for reality.
When things start to go south on the new movie set and new bodies start piling up, these blackout episodes make Laura doubt herself. Catching several people that are close to her that she somewhat trusts in lies also makes her wonder if she’s imaging things or being gaslighted. I enjoyed the did she or didn’t she push/pull of this story. I also enjoy a story that leads me on a guessing game of is a real person behind it all or is there really a supernatural force at large committing heinous crimes and getting away with it by placing the blame on seemingly innocent bystanders.
I found it a suspenseful and intriguing ride, though not really scary. Recommended to lovers of stories about horror films and Hollywood.
Thank you to Netgalley and GP Putnam’s Sons for a copy provided for an honest review.
When things start to go south on the new movie set and new bodies start piling up, these blackout episodes make Laura doubt herself. Catching several people that are close to her that she somewhat trusts in lies also makes her wonder if she’s imaging things or being gaslighted. I enjoyed the did she or didn’t she push/pull of this story. I also enjoy a story that leads me on a guessing game of is a real person behind it all or is there really a supernatural force at large committing heinous crimes and getting away with it by placing the blame on seemingly innocent bystanders.
I found it a suspenseful and intriguing ride, though not really scary. Recommended to lovers of stories about horror films and Hollywood.
Thank you to Netgalley and GP Putnam’s Sons for a copy provided for an honest review.
A cursed horror movie (8 people associated with it died) from the 90s is being “reimagined” as a TV series. The child-star of said film is now an entertainment journalist. She changed her name soon after the film and moved to London. As soon as she arrives in the U.S. to visit the set, the deaths begin to stack up.
This is a great premise. And in general it’s a good, fun horror book. I’m just going between a 3 and a 4 and settling at a 3.5 but then rounding down. It just wasn’t amazing, that’s all. Would be a good-bad horror movie for sure.
This is a great premise. And in general it’s a good, fun horror book. I’m just going between a 3 and a 4 and settling at a 3.5 but then rounding down. It just wasn’t amazing, that’s all. Would be a good-bad horror movie for sure.
If you love horror films, you'll love this book!
This was such a fun homage to horror films. You're following Laura, a former child actress who starred in a cursed horror film from the 90s, who is now returning to set to report on a remake. After the movie was originally was made many people from the cast and crew died under strange circumstances, and now the body count is rising again.
What follows is a fast-paced, campy slasher with a cinematic explosion of an ending. My only wish was that the characters were explored a bit more, but overall it was a great time.
Read in this reading vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxbBqvbnRDU&t=73s
Thank you to the publisher for granting me access to an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
This was such a fun homage to horror films. You're following Laura, a former child actress who starred in a cursed horror film from the 90s, who is now returning to set to report on a remake. After the movie was originally was made many people from the cast and crew died under strange circumstances, and now the body count is rising again.
What follows is a fast-paced, campy slasher with a cinematic explosion of an ending. My only wish was that the characters were explored a bit more, but overall it was a great time.
Read in this reading vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxbBqvbnRDU&t=73s
Thank you to the publisher for granting me access to an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
this had a really fun, over the top cinematic quality that I absolutely loved! can’t wait to read more by the author.
At face value the story, 2 ⭐️
A hypothetically, at least the point I got out of it, makes 3 ⭐️
A hypothetically, at least the point I got out of it, makes 3 ⭐️
Had so much more promise but fell short for me.
It was a fun ride though, and that first half had me kicking my feet ready for some horror slasher spooky fun.
I think for me the ending felt like it was trying to do to much, also not a fan of the message that, that ending sends with the metaphor of the story…as I see it anyway
Definitely a fun quick on for the tbr
It was a fun ride though, and that first half had me kicking my feet ready for some horror slasher spooky fun.
I think for me the ending felt like it was trying to do to much, also not a fan of the message that, that ending sends with the metaphor of the story…as I see it anyway
Definitely a fun quick on for the tbr