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Little Eve
by Catriona Ward
DID NOT FINISH: 69%
DNFed on p. 200 out of 265 (75%)
I don't normally rate books that I don't finish but I'm sooo close to the end idc. I ended up just skimming bc trying to finish this book sent me into a massive reading slump.
I loved Sundial, so I wanted to check out this author's other stuff, but OOF this was hard to get through. The pacing is just brutally slow, and the way it jumps around between past and present was jarring. I kept waiting for the big plot twist to happen and when it finally did, it was SO underwhelming dude oh my gosh. I didn't actually get to it but I skimmed the last like 20 pages just to see and I pretty much guessed that 'twist' from the get go. It's the exact same twist as in another horror book I just read, so maybe I went in with a bias, but Idk man it felt pretty dang predictable to me, ESPECIALLY once Eve carved her eye out. And same deal with the honey, I felt like it was pretty obvious that it was drugged. Maybe it was supposed to be obvious? But then I just felt icky reading about all these poor kids. And yeah, horror as a genre is not supposed to invoke warm fuzzy feelings, but like... this just felt really unoriginal?? And boring.
The book just really dragged on, and almost nothing actually happened. It was unsettling, sure, but not enough to justify reading it. It's just your run of the mill cult horror - man brainwashes children into thinking he's a god, bad things ensue as a result of kids being raised with such a fucked up religion.
I don't normally rate books that I don't finish but I'm sooo close to the end idc. I ended up just skimming bc trying to finish this book sent me into a massive reading slump.
I loved Sundial, so I wanted to check out this author's other stuff, but OOF this was hard to get through. The pacing is just brutally slow, and the way it jumps around between past and present was jarring. I kept waiting for the big plot twist to happen and when it finally did, it was SO underwhelming dude oh my gosh. I didn't actually get to it but I skimmed the last like 20 pages just to see and I pretty much guessed that 'twist' from the get go.
The book just really dragged on, and almost nothing actually happened. It was unsettling, sure, but not enough to justify reading it. It's just your run of the mill cult horror - man brainwashes children into thinking he's a god, bad things ensue as a result of kids being raised with such a fucked up religion.