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3.07 AVERAGE
3.07 AVERAGE
fast-paced
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
At the beginning, I really enjoyed the "film aspect" of this book. I was a film student for almost three years, so to see this book set up with script leads as the chapter titles was really interesting to me! As was the film talk the characters had at the beginning of the book. However, that quickly began to get annoying.
Almost every other word out of these kids mouths is some sort of movie reference. Like, we get it, they're film students. Even when their lives are in danger, they're still referencing film. It makes the characters feel very pretentious in a way. I'd imagine someone who isn't well versed in film or the horror genre would find this book rather boring to read.
For a murder spree kind of book though, it did keep me a bit on my toes. I just wished some of the characters were more fleshed out or given a better relationship with Alex, because most of the deaths I just didn't care about because I didn't know the characters that well. I kept getting Maddie and Hazel confused in the beginning for some reason and I almost entirely forgot Carter was even a character until Maddie ran off and he got mad.
I also feel like this book could've been edited better. There were a lot of run on sentences that left me either confused, or just waiting for them to be over because they didn't matter. There was also a lot of same word usage in a single paragraph, which, to me at least, takes away from the readability of the scene itself. At one point she talks about "the well" and I saw the word well come up three times in the same paragraph. Like, we know it's the well, you can describe it with the word "it" if you want.
One last thing that's more of either me completely misreading the blurb of this book or what, but I'm normally a person that reads supernatural books, and I thought this was recommended to me because there were actual vampires in it
Almost every other word out of these kids mouths is some sort of movie reference. Like, we get it, they're film students. Even when their lives are in danger, they're still referencing film. It makes the characters feel very pretentious in a way. I'd imagine someone who isn't well versed in film or the horror genre would find this book rather boring to read.
For a murder spree kind of book though, it did keep me a bit on my toes. I just wished some of the characters were more fleshed out or given a better relationship with Alex, because most of the deaths I just didn't care about because I didn't know the characters that well. I kept getting Maddie and Hazel confused in the beginning for some reason and I almost entirely forgot Carter was even a character until Maddie ran off and he got mad.
I also feel like this book could've been edited better. There were a lot of run on sentences that left me either confused, or just waiting for them to be over because they didn't matter. There was also a lot of same word usage in a single paragraph, which, to me at least, takes away from the readability of the scene itself. At one point she talks about "the well" and I saw the word well come up three times in the same paragraph. Like, we know it's the well, you can describe it with the word "it" if you want.
One last thing that's more of either me completely misreading the blurb of this book or what, but I'm normally a person that reads supernatural books, and I thought this was recommended to me because there were actual vampires in it
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder
dark
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
Wasted premise
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I went into the book thinking it was going to be a paranormal horror and was surprised by the turn it took.
The writing is very immature, even for YA. None of the characters are likable either. The premise exists and could have been good, but it doesn't live up to it.
Had nothing to do with vamps didn’t like ANY characters to slow
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Holy Smokes, I could not put down this book. It was so twisty and dark and it had me going to whole time.
I especially love books that have the unreliable narrator but you don’t find out until the very end that they’re unreliable. It makes the ending so much harder to guess, and with how many mystery books I’ve read in the last couple years, that’s a good thing - I’m very appreciative of an author who makes what happens next unguessable!
I do have to say, it was almost a bit too dark and gruesome for YA. Like, I can’t imagine reading some of those death scenes as a teen.
I do have to say, it was almost a bit too dark and gruesome for YA. Like, I can’t imagine reading some of those death scenes as a teen.