A review by readingpicnic
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

2.0

I thought the idea of the book was very creative, and I loved the illustrations, but I feel like the story was a bit of a mess. It felt like so many horror elements were mashed together into this one store that didn't necessarily make sense together. When the main character got kidnapped a second time by the prisoners and locked up again, I didn't really care anymore what happened because it started to feel repetitive. I also couldn't picture a lot of the scenes that were happening at the end with the rats and water, and I got pretty confused about what was actually happening. So many parts of the story felt predictable and cliche, and I didn't really care what happened to any of the characters. The cliffhanger ending was also really annoying to me. I feel like there was an opportunity to make more of a commentary on the PIC, but alas. This kind of reminded me of a short story I read called The Ball Room about a haunted children's play area.