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lul_lul 's review for:
The Library at Hellebore
by Cassandra Khaw
I read the first 70ish pages of that book. I like horror. I like gore. This book seemed to have it all. But the author made it boring.
By the 70th page the characters had spent way too much time on not answering the same questions several times, talking about crap nobody cares about for reasons I cannot fathom and the violence was so gratuitous and unwarranted that I didn't care for it.
None of the characters were likeable. The story didn't advance (it's a really short book like 200 pages. By the page 60 it was still explaining the setting). And most of the pages were made of characters trying to out banter each others.
I went straight to the end. Found out the almost non existent story didn't exist for any other reason that somehow the writer wanted to write about it and it didn't hold on anything but the sheer writer's will.
There's literally no reason for the whole story to span for a whole year. The staff could have just eaten their students day one. There's no reason for that thing to drag for 2 more days : apparently the walking corpse/decay guy had all they needed to kill the staff and they didn't even attempted to pause and think about a plan for... Reasons the author never cared to think about either
By the 70th page the characters had spent way too much time on not answering the same questions several times, talking about crap nobody cares about for reasons I cannot fathom and the violence was so gratuitous and unwarranted that I didn't care for it.
None of the characters were likeable. The story didn't advance (it's a really short book like 200 pages. By the page 60 it was still explaining the setting). And most of the pages were made of characters trying to out banter each others.
There's literally no reason for the whole story to span for a whole year. The staff could have just eaten their students day one. There's no reason for that thing to drag for 2 more days : apparently the walking corpse/decay guy had all they needed to kill the staff and they didn't even attempted to pause and think about a plan for... Reasons the author never cared to think about either
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail