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A review by feralnebulous
All Hallows by Christopher Golden
1.0
The internet defines a lost cause as a person or thing that can no longer hope to succeed or be changed for the better. I wish I had realized this book was a lost cause before reading 265 pages of it.
The concept of the book itself has potential, I love a good monster haunting a town on Halloween night situation, but the writing viciously neutered this creature down to something as terrifying and threatening as a little baby chick. Where is the poetry, the romance, when describing someone's death as (and I quote) "And he died"? Or when a character said something was filling his lungs "like air but not air"? I don't mean to be too harsh on this book, it was fine enough, but trying to execute this sort of story on the timeline of everything happening in one night, giving us no background whatsoever and expecting us to be scared of something that could only be described as the Trickster from the Summerween episode of Gravity Falls (which is being generous), you can't expect me to be that thrilled as a reader.
So, I will continue my search for a Halloween story that scared me as much as the Headless Horseman episode of the 1995 PBS show Wishbone did when I was younger.
The concept of the book itself has potential, I love a good monster haunting a town on Halloween night situation, but the writing viciously neutered this creature down to something as terrifying and threatening as a little baby chick. Where is the poetry, the romance, when describing someone's death as (and I quote) "And he died"? Or when a character said something was filling his lungs "like air but not air"? I don't mean to be too harsh on this book, it was fine enough, but trying to execute this sort of story on the timeline of everything happening in one night, giving us no background whatsoever and expecting us to be scared of something that could only be described as the Trickster from the Summerween episode of Gravity Falls (which is being generous), you can't expect me to be that thrilled as a reader.
So, I will continue my search for a Halloween story that scared me as much as the Headless Horseman episode of the 1995 PBS show Wishbone did when I was younger.