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A review by gsatori
Eerie by Blake Crouch, Jordan Crouch
3.0
No!!!! You gave us a fascinating and eerie setting and ratcheted up the tension. You kept a breakneck pace. It was all coming together so well...
And then you defecated. Were you impatient to end the book? Did you lose a bet? What the fuck?
I won't spoil this for people other than to say the resolution and answers are absurd. Imagine a painting with a yellow dot and the dot doesn't belong---because it's the only yellow on the canvas. The ending falls flat because there's nothing tipping off the reader ahead of time. You don't switch genres in midstream.
This could have been a great novel and I'll read more of your work, but accept my feedback. You can't throw plot elements into a novel without paving the way and laying foundation.
And then you defecated. Were you impatient to end the book? Did you lose a bet? What the fuck?
I won't spoil this for people other than to say the resolution and answers are absurd. Imagine a painting with a yellow dot and the dot doesn't belong---because it's the only yellow on the canvas. The ending falls flat because there's nothing tipping off the reader ahead of time. You don't switch genres in midstream.
This could have been a great novel and I'll read more of your work, but accept my feedback. You can't throw plot elements into a novel without paving the way and laying foundation.