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sierrarozen 's review for:
Head Like a Hole
by Andrew Van Wey
what really pulled me in first about the book is obviously how striking the cover image is. I definitely thought at first that I was going to get some Medusa, Greek mythology vibes just based on that, as well as early on when the fisherman finds just a head. this book is very twisty and has great horror elements without being over the top disgusting or sexual. I will say I would’ve liked a different ending and I think it did get a little bit confusing towards the end. I would have loved if the story had gone more in an ancient curse type of way as opposed to the radiation, Russian way it went in. I just couldn’t really find it believable that radiation would make Oksana be able to inhabit people or kill them in the way she did or just do any of the things she did. I really thought throughout the novel that it was going to be revealed that the friend group did something terrible to her, and that she had placed some kind of curse on them. I was correct in my theory that they had left her for dead in some way and she was getting revenge but I didn’t think she was this weird creature from the beginning. I thought it was just something they had done to her that made her this way, that the ocean, plus some spiritual type thing would mesh together and make her the way that she was. Overall, I was still very pleased with how the novel played out and will be looking for other horror recommendations in the same vein.