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A review by rosebudreading
Horror Movie: A Novel by Paul Tremblay
3.0
The concept for this book was really fun. I found the story intriguing during some parts. The author did a fantastic job building up the atmosphere. He didn’t shy away from the gore and violence. There were a couple of moments that had me physically cringing while reading.
One of the issues I had while reading was that I found it a bit hard to follow. The timeline jumped around a lot. It was hard to know at times if we were in the present, past, and dialogue from the original movie script. I had to read a couple lines to get the context clues to figure out the timeline. Some of the formatting inside of the book with the lines of dialogue from the film was a little bit weird but I chalked that up to having an ARC copy.
There was some level of predictability with the book, but I think that’s just kind of the nature of the story. There were some aspects that still managed to surprise me in the end. I didn’t really feel a connection with any of the characters. The author just managed to keep me hooked enough to want to find out what happened with each of them.
This one had aspects I liked, and others that I didn’t. I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to recommend this one. It ended up very Mid for me. I do want to check out this authors other works because I did enjoy his writing style. This just wasn’t the one for me!
One of the issues I had while reading was that I found it a bit hard to follow. The timeline jumped around a lot. It was hard to know at times if we were in the present, past, and dialogue from the original movie script. I had to read a couple lines to get the context clues to figure out the timeline. Some of the formatting inside of the book with the lines of dialogue from the film was a little bit weird but I chalked that up to having an ARC copy.
There was some level of predictability with the book, but I think that’s just kind of the nature of the story. There were some aspects that still managed to surprise me in the end. I didn’t really feel a connection with any of the characters. The author just managed to keep me hooked enough to want to find out what happened with each of them.
This one had aspects I liked, and others that I didn’t. I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to recommend this one. It ended up very Mid for me. I do want to check out this authors other works because I did enjoy his writing style. This just wasn’t the one for me!