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Ring
by Kōji Suzuki
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This book starts of with such a bang! I was determined to love it as it hooked me in from the very beginning. However, a few chapters in things popped up which I wasn't as in love with... well, just straight up didn't like. Let's get the gripes out of the way first. One of the main characters is a rapist and him being a rapist doesn't add anything to the plot. Being a rapist, I feel, was used as a character trait to make us feel slightly disgusted with him, which it does... but also a bit disgusted with the author for allowing such a character to exist without there being a decent conversation/critique over this trait. My second gripe is the pace. It was slow. Once the excitement of the first few chapters of actual paranormal activity wore out it got boring. Then we combine this with the big final boo moment, the ending. WTH (what the heck - I keep this swear word free!) was that ending?! I feel like it was going for a cliffhanger but really ended up being a like that moment when you remember a snack squirrelled away in your desk just to discover you ate the snack already.
The pros? aka why this isn't a one star. Well I read it to the end so that must account for something. The mystery aspect was able to pull me through it at least. Also, the few chapters that were on the paranormal side of things, was genuinely scary - it had some real potential.
This book starts of with such a bang! I was determined to love it as it hooked me in from the very beginning. However, a few chapters in things popped up which I wasn't as in love with... well, just straight up didn't like. Let's get the gripes out of the way first. One of the main characters is a rapist and him being a rapist doesn't add anything to the plot. Being a rapist, I feel, was used as a character trait to make us feel slightly disgusted with him, which it does... but also a bit disgusted with the author for allowing such a character to exist without there being a decent conversation/critique over this trait. My second gripe is the pace. It was slow. Once the excitement of the first few chapters of actual paranormal activity wore out it got boring. Then we combine this with the big final boo moment, the ending. WTH (what the heck - I keep this swear word free!) was that ending?! I feel like it was going for a cliffhanger but really ended up being a like that moment when you remember a snack squirrelled away in your desk just to discover you ate the snack already.
The pros? aka why this isn't a one star. Well I read it to the end so that must account for something. The mystery aspect was able to pull me through it at least. Also, the few chapters that were on the paranormal side of things, was genuinely scary - it had some real potential.