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The Hitchcock Hotel
by Stephanie Wrobel
Thank you to @BerkleyPub and @netgalley for this e-arc copy. All thoughts are my own.
Alfred is the owner of the Hitchcock hotel which offers a unique Alfred Hitchcock experience.
To celebrate the hotel’s first anniversary, he invites his former best friends from his college Film Club for a reunion. He hasn’t spoken to them since that night sixteen years ago…
Now that they’re all together, they can help him finish his creation. After all, no Hitchcock set is complete without a body.
I loved a lot of things about this book! I particularly enjoyed how the flashbacks were done. They were seamless and well crafted. They took me back while knowing I was in the past, and all without clear chapter markers. This is a huge thing for me because normally I need the chapter markers to help, but in this case the writing was so seamless it just worked. This book is quite the slow burn with no real action taking place until about the 50% mark, then it is still a little slow to build momentum. I really did enjoy the twists this book presented. There were some great red herrings and had me thinking one way, then bam another thing happened, it was great. I don’t agree that this book is really horror, though maybe gothic horror but only really because of the pacing and Hitchcock references. I wasn’t even creeped out like I would have expected to be.
For me this book had some really awesome points, but some not so awesome points. However, I think those looking for an atmospheric yet slower read light on the horror but some thought provoking twists, will enjoy.
Alfred is the owner of the Hitchcock hotel which offers a unique Alfred Hitchcock experience.
To celebrate the hotel’s first anniversary, he invites his former best friends from his college Film Club for a reunion. He hasn’t spoken to them since that night sixteen years ago…
Now that they’re all together, they can help him finish his creation. After all, no Hitchcock set is complete without a body.
I loved a lot of things about this book! I particularly enjoyed how the flashbacks were done. They were seamless and well crafted. They took me back while knowing I was in the past, and all without clear chapter markers. This is a huge thing for me because normally I need the chapter markers to help, but in this case the writing was so seamless it just worked. This book is quite the slow burn with no real action taking place until about the 50% mark, then it is still a little slow to build momentum. I really did enjoy the twists this book presented. There were some great red herrings and had me thinking one way, then bam another thing happened, it was great. I don’t agree that this book is really horror, though maybe gothic horror but only really because of the pacing and Hitchcock references. I wasn’t even creeped out like I would have expected to be.
For me this book had some really awesome points, but some not so awesome points. However, I think those looking for an atmospheric yet slower read light on the horror but some thought provoking twists, will enjoy.