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3.44 AVERAGE
3.44 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A 'cursed' '90s horror movie gets a remake, and the surviving child star is the journalist that has to write about it? That's the premise of Burn the Negative, which starts off with a bang. Laura Warren has been haunted by her time as a child actress on the set of The Guesthouse - a film where most of the people attached to it died - and is sent by her editor to cover the remake currently happening in California. From the moment she touches down stateside, freak accidents and tragedy follow her. Is the Needle Man, the villain from The Guesthouse, really back? Or is something more sinister at work? With a strong start, the book powers through, reading like a classic slasher, but fell apart at the end for me. Still, for a good old school horror fan, this was worth the time.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Laura is on her way to LA to cover the reboot of The Guesthouse, It Feeds for Zeppelin Magazine. Anyone else would have been thrilled to be doing so, but Laura hides a deep dark secret that very few people outside of her family know--she was the original Tammy Manners. After deaths start plaguing the cast and crew, Laura's parents flee the country and move to London. Laura is not eager to stir up old memories, and she may be right to worry, as soon deaths and accidents start befalling the cast and crew of It Feeds....
This book was excellent! Much like The Shadow Glass, this evokes memories of the 90s, of the horror movies that were famous in that decade, especially Nightmare on Elm Street. The movie bad guy, Mr. Needleface,, with his needles in place of fingers, evokes the knife hands of Freddy Krueger. Each gruesome death keeps you guessing which of the 9 original deaths will happen next, from burning to being buried alive. I think we could have used a bit more of how awful the relationship was between Laura and her now-estranged mother was back in the 90s when she was filming The Guesthouse, but I really enjoyed this book and all the shakes and shivers it caused while reading it!
This book was excellent! Much like The Shadow Glass, this evokes memories of the 90s, of the horror movies that were famous in that decade, especially Nightmare on Elm Street. The movie bad guy, Mr. Needleface,, with his needles in place of fingers, evokes the knife hands of Freddy Krueger. Each gruesome death keeps you guessing which of the 9 original deaths will happen next, from burning to being buried alive. I think we could have used a bit more of how awful the relationship was between Laura and her now-estranged mother was back in the 90s when she was filming The Guesthouse, but I really enjoyed this book and all the shakes and shivers it caused while reading it!
This was ok. I like the concept but I didn't really like how it resolved and the reasoning. It was sort of like watching a B horror movie for me. And actually maybe it would've worked better as a movie.
Book had great build up and interesting story line, but the ending was not good. I felt like for how much build up the story has the ending left me unsatisfied.
I don’t have time for books with leering scenes of child abuse. Bye.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Torture
Moderate: Suicide
fast-paced