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A review by satanicpuppy
Last Days by Adam L.G. Nevill
4.0
This was the second Nevill book I read after The Ritual...I liked the first half of that one quite a lot, but the second half left me cold.
For this one, I picked up a sample, read the first chapter or so, and then shelved it for like six months. It didn't seem like it was going to go anywhere I was interested in going.
I was wrong.
A lot of people, in reviews, call Nevill verbose. His books should be tighter, shorter, more concise.
I liked the slow burn in this one. I liked all the slow exposition, coupled with the uncanny. I liked the asides with weird tangential characters, I felt it all built toward the ultimate end, and while, sure, there were parts I could cut, I don't think cutting them would really benefit the story.
Little slow in the start, but I didn't find it slow at all once it got going. The exposition had that lovely sort of horror to it...You knew what they were going to say, you knew what they'd experienced, but it was important that said it, and all the more horrifying when they did.
I found it clean and satisfying. Ending was a little pat, some bits in the middle weren't what they could have been, but there were bits that were really imaginative and inspired. I highly recommend.
For this one, I picked up a sample, read the first chapter or so, and then shelved it for like six months. It didn't seem like it was going to go anywhere I was interested in going.
I was wrong.
A lot of people, in reviews, call Nevill verbose. His books should be tighter, shorter, more concise.
I liked the slow burn in this one. I liked all the slow exposition, coupled with the uncanny. I liked the asides with weird tangential characters, I felt it all built toward the ultimate end, and while, sure, there were parts I could cut, I don't think cutting them would really benefit the story.
Little slow in the start, but I didn't find it slow at all once it got going. The exposition had that lovely sort of horror to it...You knew what they were going to say, you knew what they'd experienced, but it was important that said it, and all the more horrifying when they did.
I found it clean and satisfying. Ending was a little pat, some bits in the middle weren't what they could have been, but there were bits that were really imaginative and inspired. I highly recommend.