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A review by senchastories
The Plastic Priest by Nicole Cushing
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
2.0
Starting to think I might be too weird for weird horror…or maybe this just wasn’t the book for me.
I went into this book expecting something truly wacky, but for the vast majority of it I felt like I was reading a mundane account of a Midwestern town and waiting for something to happen. And when it finally did pick up, I found myself extremely underwhelmed. There is a lot of setup and backstory, yet I didn’t feel like I understood the main character in any meaningful way, so her break from reality was not really something I cared about on an emotional level, and not unsettling enough to grab me as a horror reader. Maybe I’m being too harsh; from other reviews I can see some people really enjoyed this story, but for me this did not work at all.
The nonbinary priest named Binx Stratford got a good laugh out of me, though.
Thanks to the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
I went into this book expecting something truly wacky, but for the vast majority of it I felt like I was reading a mundane account of a Midwestern town and waiting for something to happen. And when it finally did pick up, I found myself extremely underwhelmed. There is a lot of setup and backstory, yet I didn’t feel like I understood the main character in any meaningful way, so her break from reality was not really something I cared about on an emotional level, and not unsettling enough to grab me as a horror reader. Maybe I’m being too harsh; from other reviews I can see some people really enjoyed this story, but for me this did not work at all.
The nonbinary priest named Binx Stratford got a good laugh out of me, though.
Thanks to the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!