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A review by alyskarstark
Deliver Me by Elle Nash
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
This just didn't come together for me. The surrounding characters felt too amorphous for most of the book, there was a lack of tension that I felt like had been promised, and I just felt like it dragged on. By the time we got to the the climax, I just didn't really care.
This could just be a case of right book/wrong person - I saw that this was meant to be a creepy, tense horror book (even that it was meant to be quite gory) but for the first nearly 70% it leaned more into an exploration of growing up in a small town and in the church. The disturbing undertones didn't come through enough for me and I was left wanting more.
Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC; this books comes out today (Oct 3rd) so if a slowburn is more your style then this might be for you.
This could just be a case of right book/wrong person - I saw that this was meant to be a creepy, tense horror book (even that it was meant to be quite gory) but for the first nearly 70% it leaned more into an exploration of growing up in a small town and in the church. The disturbing undertones didn't come through enough for me and I was left wanting more.
Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC; this books comes out today (Oct 3rd) so if a slowburn is more your style then this might be for you.