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ideallyportia 's review for:
Ghost Slayer
by Majanka Verstraete
I was initially pretty excited about Ghost Slayer, especially since it has been marketed as New Adult. So I will go ahead and say that one of my issues with this book is that there is no reason for it to be new adult other than that the characters are in college. This was basically a tame YA with college aged people.
Anyway, I have this problem with continuing to try to find the next great horror series. Its likely that nothing will ever compare to EIT series by Karina Halle, but I would like a great series to come along that is even remotely similar in its excitement and genuinely scary nature. I was hoping this would be the beginning to a new, exciting, creepy, ghost series. While I think there was potential here, I don't think it was fully flushed out or executed well.
The characters are a bit dull, though I was hoping for more with Alex. Kaelyn was roughly useless it seems, but she is our special snowflake main character. What aggravates me most is that even as I say all of these things, I can just imagine all of the potential that is hiding within the characters and story! I need better history, more interesting personalities... the setting and major events were done pretty well, and managed to keep me wanting to read more.
This was tough, because I enjoyed it, even though I can see flaws, and I do wish it was a bit more mature. For New Adult, it reads very YA, middle grade at times, as though the audience of new adult was never considered, only the age of the characters.
I do think I would read the next book, to see where it goes and if anything improves.
ANDDDDD I sincerely hope the final version has WAY better editing than this ARC did, because not only were there grammatical errors, but there were a few continuity errors, with names in wrong places, and objects taken with ad then suddenly saying they were left behind... quite a few issues.
**Thank you to Netgalley and the author and the awesome Fire Quill Publishing for a copy in exchange for an honest review!!**
Anyway, I have this problem with continuing to try to find the next great horror series. Its likely that nothing will ever compare to EIT series by Karina Halle, but I would like a great series to come along that is even remotely similar in its excitement and genuinely scary nature. I was hoping this would be the beginning to a new, exciting, creepy, ghost series. While I think there was potential here, I don't think it was fully flushed out or executed well.
The characters are a bit dull, though I was hoping for more with Alex. Kaelyn was roughly useless it seems, but she is our special snowflake main character. What aggravates me most is that even as I say all of these things, I can just imagine all of the potential that is hiding within the characters and story! I need better history, more interesting personalities... the setting and major events were done pretty well, and managed to keep me wanting to read more.
This was tough, because I enjoyed it, even though I can see flaws, and I do wish it was a bit more mature. For New Adult, it reads very YA, middle grade at times, as though the audience of new adult was never considered, only the age of the characters.
I do think I would read the next book, to see where it goes and if anything improves.
ANDDDDD I sincerely hope the final version has WAY better editing than this ARC did, because not only were there grammatical errors, but there were a few continuity errors, with names in wrong places, and objects taken with ad then suddenly saying they were left behind... quite a few issues.
**Thank you to Netgalley and the author and the awesome Fire Quill Publishing for a copy in exchange for an honest review!!**