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A review by bookbearreads
I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
1.0
I have to say, this book was very much not for me.
It felt like it couldn't decide what genre it wanted to be. It was like being caught in a movie and not, possibly paranormal or just some ramblings of a deranged serial killer. I couldn't relate to any of the characters and they all seemed flat.
I understand this was trying to be like a meta-slasher story, aware of itself, but it felt so forced into fitting into the genre of slasher, that it ended up failing. It was like trying to watch Scream from the killer's point of view but it just failed.
Maybe others will like this book, but this just did not do it for me.
It felt like it couldn't decide what genre it wanted to be. It was like being caught in a movie and not, possibly paranormal or just some ramblings of a deranged serial killer. I couldn't relate to any of the characters and they all seemed flat.
I understand this was trying to be like a meta-slasher story, aware of itself, but it felt so forced into fitting into the genre of slasher, that it ended up failing. It was like trying to watch Scream from the killer's point of view but it just failed.
Maybe others will like this book, but this just did not do it for me.