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gma2lana's review against another edition
4.0
I was chosen to read this book in a giveaway, and in exchange write a review on the book.
This book was good, I read it rather quickly, it had me pulled in from the first few pages. Love stories about haunted houses, (always makes you think about ghosts and if they really exist). So, for me it's a good short novel, mabye ended a little bit abruptly, but again, it was good.
I didn't browse through the short stories as much or the poems however.
This book was good, I read it rather quickly, it had me pulled in from the first few pages. Love stories about haunted houses, (always makes you think about ghosts and if they really exist). So, for me it's a good short novel, mabye ended a little bit abruptly, but again, it was good.
I didn't browse through the short stories as much or the poems however.
shelflife's review against another edition
4.0
Wow! This is what horror writing is all about! This is what Stephen King used to be like. Dead reflections is an anthology of 5 short stories just oozing with creep.
If you're looking for violence or gore, you won't find it here, this is the frights that live in your head and get under your skin. Especially dead reflections and smoke and leaves. Haunted houses and dark carnivals. Deliciously evil.
A great October read.
If you're looking for violence or gore, you won't find it here, this is the frights that live in your head and get under your skin. Especially dead reflections and smoke and leaves. Haunted houses and dark carnivals. Deliciously evil.
A great October read.
kellswitch's review
3.0
This is a collection of one horror novel, five short stories and two poems.
The main story, Dead Reflections did not really work for me, it started out creepy and suspenseful but the longer it went on the less and less creepy it became until it felt, well like a normal story, for lack of better words. Overall it was very unsatisfying and a struggle for me to finish. The two poems also left me cold but I have a love/hate, mostly hate relationship with poetry so those who are more into it may come away with a better feel for them.
Now the short stories. Oh my the short stories! They are what I was expecting and looking for. Creepy, atmospheric and unsettling they take you to that half step out of reality where all the nightmares can exist. I love how the author would use a short description of a sense, of smell, sound, touch, the feeling of something moving in the air against your skin, something in the atmosphere, to create an off balance feeling that puts you into the right state of mind and evokes what the characters are experiencing because we 19ve smelled these smelled or sensed these things but perhaps we didn 19t know why they were unsettling before. The short stories alone were definitely worth getting the book for.
The main story, Dead Reflections did not really work for me, it started out creepy and suspenseful but the longer it went on the less and less creepy it became until it felt, well like a normal story, for lack of better words. Overall it was very unsatisfying and a struggle for me to finish. The two poems also left me cold but I have a love/hate, mostly hate relationship with poetry so those who are more into it may come away with a better feel for them.
Now the short stories. Oh my the short stories! They are what I was expecting and looking for. Creepy, atmospheric and unsettling they take you to that half step out of reality where all the nightmares can exist. I love how the author would use a short description of a sense, of smell, sound, touch, the feeling of something moving in the air against your skin, something in the atmosphere, to create an off balance feeling that puts you into the right state of mind and evokes what the characters are experiencing because we 19ve smelled these smelled or sensed these things but perhaps we didn 19t know why they were unsettling before. The short stories alone were definitely worth getting the book for.
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