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A review by srcompton
The Dead Path by Stephen M. Irwin
3.0
This book was going SO WELL. Well, okay, the spiders nearly made me stop reading but that's just me being me. Something about it put me in mind of It by Stephen King, one of my favorite horror novels. Probably the prevalence of children as main characters, or the childhood flashbacks, or small town setting. But I was really enjoying it.
And then we hit the epilogue. Seriously, it took that long, in a book filled with giant killer spiders, for me to find something to turn my rating from a solid four stars (rare for me!) to three.
Just, that epilogue. Really? The little girl is the new Quill, or is possessed by her? Not only did it not make a bit of sense, it just felt like the cheap fake out endings of the low budget horror movies my friends and I used to watch during slumber parties (we weren't always your typical teen girls). I just wish I hadn't read the epilogue.
And then we hit the epilogue. Seriously, it took that long, in a book filled with giant killer spiders, for me to find something to turn my rating from a solid four stars (rare for me!) to three.
Just, that epilogue. Really? The little girl is the new Quill, or is possessed by her? Not only did it not make a bit of sense, it just felt like the cheap fake out endings of the low budget horror movies my friends and I used to watch during slumber parties (we weren't always your typical teen girls). I just wish I hadn't read the epilogue.