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The Turnout by Megan Abbott
3.0
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me an ARC to review.
I'm torn on this one. I have a love/hate relationship with Abbott's writing style - it's a unique prose that's intentionally unsettling and haunting but borders on annoyingly pretentious sometimes. I love the lucid attention to detail - it reads like horror at times - but the clipped writing style doesn't flow well for me and feels distracting. Having picked up two of her previous works before, it's frustrating to get past and I've only barely managed to finish one of her books. With that being said, I had to stop reading a couple chapters in.
The plot is intriguing, the characters are vivid and raw, and the creepy tone both terrifies me and draws me in. But there's something about this book that I can't get myself to move past. I feel like it might be the underlying dread that builds after each paragraph, or maybe it's the contractor's wolf-like, looming presence that's making me incredibly uncomfortable. All I know is, this was a tough one to push myself through.
I may revisit this after some time has passed and try it again.
I'm torn on this one. I have a love/hate relationship with Abbott's writing style - it's a unique prose that's intentionally unsettling and haunting but borders on annoyingly pretentious sometimes. I love the lucid attention to detail - it reads like horror at times - but the clipped writing style doesn't flow well for me and feels distracting. Having picked up two of her previous works before, it's frustrating to get past and I've only barely managed to finish one of her books. With that being said, I had to stop reading a couple chapters in.
The plot is intriguing, the characters are vivid and raw, and the creepy tone both terrifies me and draws me in. But there's something about this book that I can't get myself to move past. I feel like it might be the underlying dread that builds after each paragraph, or maybe it's the contractor's wolf-like, looming presence that's making me incredibly uncomfortable. All I know is, this was a tough one to push myself through.
I may revisit this after some time has passed and try it again.