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The Creeping
by Alexandra Sirowy
This one was... fine. It ended like everything else like it does; I’ve taken to calling it The Flinch. When authors set up for a cool monster, something supernatural, but then go all Scooby Doo on me and do the “The only monsters are human” shit. What’s so bad about a monster? An honest to God Nordic child eating monstrosity would have been FUCKING AWESOME. I wouldn’t have slept for weeks. Instead I get neat little bows tied in the story. I would have been ok with the Scooby Doo ending IF the author had gone with the twist that Sam had done it. They kind of set it up and I was like “This would actually be an awesome plot twist” but NO, he’s the boy who’s too good, the boy who’s loved her all along. Call me cynical, but fuck off with your teen love bullshit already.
I dislike Stella, even after everything. She’s whiny. She’s a walking stereotype. So are her friends. All of the characters except for the old lady are cardboard.
Pretty much the only reason I stayed with this one instead of hurling it onto the DNF pile was that some of the details were massively fucked up, and I genuinely thought I would get a child-munching monster hunt. But I guess I’m doomed to reading Scooby Doo reruns.
I dislike Stella, even after everything. She’s whiny. She’s a walking stereotype. So are her friends. All of the characters except for the old lady are cardboard.
Pretty much the only reason I stayed with this one instead of hurling it onto the DNF pile was that some of the details were massively fucked up, and I genuinely thought I would get a child-munching monster hunt. But I guess I’m doomed to reading Scooby Doo reruns.