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3.36 AVERAGE
3.36 AVERAGE
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This book is very fast paced! To me, it reads like a slasher/horror movie. Honestly, I was hooked and scared from the prologue.
After almost a month of horror novels including some classics that were just okay, I love that this just embraced the genre and went full-on slasher. It felt like a movie, where the characters are just a line of bodies. You don't really get to know any of them, but it was just all about the cannibal who felt very Jason/Michael Myers-esque. He just keeps going. It has a good intro and once the action starts it just keeps going. I read the bulk of the book over a day (yay to short chapters) and will absolutely read more from this author. Is it perfect? No, but definitely memorable.
COVER: Simple but very effective. Light and clean. I love it.
PLOT: This book is so confusing. I understand the need for the first chapter as an introduction. But after that, we have so many new characters coming in. So much new information, and half of it is useless later on.
I like the idea of presenting us the bad guy and his past but it's done weakly and I wasn't really interested in him or what he does with his victims. There was too much character build-up; with dumb characters. The main event happened too late and it was so short.
OVERALL: A badly written nice idea.
PLOT: This book is so confusing. I understand the need for the first chapter as an introduction. But after that, we have so many new characters coming in. So much new information, and half of it is useless later on.
I like the idea of presenting us the bad guy and his past but it's done weakly and I wasn't really interested in him or what he does with his victims. There was too much character build-up; with dumb characters. The main event happened too late and it was so short.
OVERALL: A badly written nice idea.
3.5/5 Rating
It was a good fast paced read, but it made me sad in a way I didn’t like.
It was a good fast paced read, but it made me sad in a way I didn’t like.
dark
fast-paced
Fun slasher books, similar vibes to chainsaw massacre.. nothing too deep but i had fun reading this..
Well the first thing I will say right off the bat is that this book lives up to the title. Slaughter is the only applicable thing for happened here. It read very much like a slasher movie only more in the Eli Roth vein with the sheer violence, gore, and mostly unlikeable characters.
The set-up is typical. Various groups of people head to a remote cabin for different reasons and meet up with a cannibal. Murder spree ensues. Ambiguous ending as to fate of the killer and the survivors. That said it is darker and more gory than others I've read, like Kill River. And it goes into fairly graphic detail with regards to the cannibalism. So if that is not your thing then you may want to skip this one.
One thing I didn't enjoy was the representation of the killer and that is what knocked off a star. They were obviously written to be neuro-atypical but the execution was, bluntly put. poorly done. It read very much like what you would expect in the early nineties when not a lot was known about that and was full of clichés. The constant reference to his mom calling him a special boy was a clear nod to Jason as well as another aspect of the story which I won't go into as it would be a spoiler. But all of it didn't sit well with me. It just didn't sit well with me and I feel it could have used a sensitivity reader or it would have been better to have a cliched neuro-typical killer.
Overall it was an okay read. It was engaging enough. While I feel the set up was a bit too much and too drawn out, when the action (meaning killing spree) started it kept at a fairly steady pace. However, it is a slasher book which means that there are not going to be a lot of survivors and it may not be who you expect. If you like horror novels and movies, then it will be right up your alley but be mindful with all the warnings given here before you do.
The set-up is typical. Various groups of people head to a remote cabin for different reasons and meet up with a cannibal. Murder spree ensues. Ambiguous ending as to fate of the killer and the survivors. That said it is darker and more gory than others I've read, like Kill River. And it goes into fairly graphic detail with regards to the cannibalism. So if that is not your thing then you may want to skip this one.
One thing I didn't enjoy was the representation of the killer and that is what knocked off a star. They were obviously written to be neuro-atypical but the execution was, bluntly put. poorly done. It read very much like what you would expect in the early nineties when not a lot was known about that and was full of clichés. The constant reference to his mom calling him a special boy was a clear nod to Jason as well as another aspect of the story which I won't go into as it would be a spoiler. But all of it didn't sit well with me. It just didn't sit well with me and I feel it could have used a sensitivity reader or it would have been better to have a cliched neuro-typical killer.
Overall it was an okay read. It was engaging enough. While I feel the set up was a bit too much and too drawn out, when the action (meaning killing spree) started it kept at a fairly steady pace. However, it is a slasher book which means that there are not going to be a lot of survivors and it may not be who you expect. If you like horror novels and movies, then it will be right up your alley but be mindful with all the warnings given here before you do.
This book was absolutely "killer". I enjoyed the writing style and the plot very much. The intro will have you hooked and wanting to read more. This is a great read for anyone who loves classic slasher films or enjoys gory atmospheric reads. The forest and camp setting was done very well. Be prepared, this book is not for the faint of heart!