458 reviews for:

Burn the Negative

Josh Winning

3.44 AVERAGE

ecs1599's review

4.0

dark mysterious tense

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

themorbidlycuriousbookclub's review against another edition

2.0

challenging dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

readbyregan's review

3.25

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

harley_quinn's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

peytonn's review

2.0

adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

shannahjh's review against another edition

2.5

dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kayleighosaur's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

boards_books_and_brews's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Burn the Negative
Written by Josh Winning
Read by Stephanie Cannon
Book 223/200
Genre: Horror
Format: Digital/Audio, ARC
Pages/Time: 368/10hr 6min
Published: 2023
Rating: 8.5/10
Horror: 👻👻👻

Josh Winning's new horror novel takes on the scariest of Hollywood's phenomena, the remake of a classic movie. Burn the Negative is a super interesting and exciting read! Almost the entire cast of The Guesthouse was murdered shortly after the film's release, and now more mysterious killings are taking place now that the movie is being remade. 

Winning's new book is a very well done spooky story for the Halloween season. Throughout the story, I kept going back and forth on what I think was going on, and the twist at the end was very well handled. I had a lot of fun with this read!

ashleybee_reading's review

4.75

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

momankara's review

3.0

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Thanks so much to NetGalley for the eARC.

I think "retro horror" must be a new category. I liked the writing here, which moved the story forward with few hiccups. The trick for this book would have been to make something actually scary that relies heavily on kitsch and Hollywood lore. This book really didn't hit that bar. It just wasn't scary to me, and the various murders felt like set pieces when I know everyone is just an actor. I did like the backstory of Laura's character. It just wasn't fleshed out enough to make me feel her terror, much less to explain what was happening in the present. The ending felt like a forced twist, not like an aha moment.