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A review by karieh13
A Cold Season by Alison Littlewood
2.0
I was very disappointed in this book. One of the reviews on my copy likens it to "Heart Shaped Box" by Joe Hill - and it is nothing like that. "Box" was so genuinely spooky in places that I needed to set it down at times. There is an image from that book that I still can't get out of my mind.
"Cold Season", however, starts as a story that appears to be about a strange town - a place that is not quite right....and then quickly devolves into a confusing, not spooky, not particularly interesting tale of a cult/Satan-ish group of people who try to possess Cass and her young son.
The last few chapters especially are a bit of a mess. Cass has a switchback trail of thoughts that make very little sense, are hard to follow (even while keeping the horrific circumstances in mind) and are not very interesting. She comes off as just a completely clueless character, but by the time she figures out what is going on, I'd lost all interest in her and her son's well-being.
I was in the mood for something creepy, something that gripped me and made me wonder what I might encounter on the next page - this was not it.
"Cold Season", however, starts as a story that appears to be about a strange town - a place that is not quite right....and then quickly devolves into a confusing, not spooky, not particularly interesting tale of a cult/Satan-ish group of people who try to possess Cass and her young son.
The last few chapters especially are a bit of a mess. Cass has a switchback trail of thoughts that make very little sense, are hard to follow (even while keeping the horrific circumstances in mind) and are not very interesting. She comes off as just a completely clueless character, but by the time she figures out what is going on, I'd lost all interest in her and her son's well-being.
I was in the mood for something creepy, something that gripped me and made me wonder what I might encounter on the next page - this was not it.