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annenatalie 's review for:
Last Days
by Adam L.G. Nevill
I DNF’d this book for over a year before coming back to finish it in a mad fury of persistence. This is truly a creative horror book and definitely one of the most unique concepts in modern horror I have come across. The settings are lush and unsettling, and the world building and research that the author had to do to cultivate this kind of rich history and background is nothing short of impressive.
That being said, I was bored for the majority of the story. This is a slow burn in terms of action, and unfortunately the pacing of the plot suffers for it. The main character had no idea what was going on, and we as readers don’t either. I think this was meant to create a sense of unease and maybe a mystique, but all it did was make me not care. The stakes don’t exist if basically the entirety of the book, so the reader really has to be eager for a certain kind of experience to really be driven to keep going. I, unfortunately, am not that kind of reader. I want to understand and be invested in the character’s predicament. By the time I got to the end where the stakes were explained and the action finally picked up, I was in such a mind-numbing state that the only thing keeping me going was the determination to FINISH and I barely registered any of the words I read.
This story has so much potential, and I definitely see where the five star reviews are coming in, but for me what it lacked was a thorough editing and cutting of around 25-30,000 words.
I do plan to check out the author’s other works though. Many of them are much thinner than this volume and I am hoping that will give the author’s concepts the opportunity to shine through. 3/5⭐️
That being said, I was bored for the majority of the story. This is a slow burn in terms of action, and unfortunately the pacing of the plot suffers for it. The main character had no idea what was going on, and we as readers don’t either. I think this was meant to create a sense of unease and maybe a mystique, but all it did was make me not care. The stakes don’t exist if basically the entirety of the book, so the reader really has to be eager for a certain kind of experience to really be driven to keep going. I, unfortunately, am not that kind of reader. I want to understand and be invested in the character’s predicament. By the time I got to the end where the stakes were explained and the action finally picked up, I was in such a mind-numbing state that the only thing keeping me going was the determination to FINISH and I barely registered any of the words I read.
This story has so much potential, and I definitely see where the five star reviews are coming in, but for me what it lacked was a thorough editing and cutting of around 25-30,000 words.
I do plan to check out the author’s other works though. Many of them are much thinner than this volume and I am hoping that will give the author’s concepts the opportunity to shine through. 3/5⭐️