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micahbb 's review for:
Gallows Hill
by Darcy Coates
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A job with no prospects, an apartment I’d have to leave soon regardless. I may not have chosen this path, but now that I’ve been placed on it, why shouldn’t I try to follow it?
Catching up on my 2024 reading challenge. I’ve selected a short read for #8 so I’m going to make it!
This was my Halloween/October read that I finished on Thanksgiving. 370+ pages is a hefty read for me.
I wanted to read more horror genre this year after finishing Stephen King’s "On Writing." I went with Gallows Hill because it has been on my to-read list for a couple of years, and the cover design chilled me. Plus, the setting of an old manor paired with a winery on the grounds.
Darcy Coates crafts a story with foreboding tension and nail-biting moments galore. She has a strong command of imagery and prose. A well-written novel with a delicious mash-up of two of the genre’s famed unnatural villains.
Coates did overwrite at times, especially with the similes, such that it diluted the impact of the ones that were clever. And as much as I love the word “cacophony,” that one was overused, so too with “darts.”
But I loved that the protagonist’s birthday was September 7 (Virgo hive rise!) and will definitely be reading another Coates’ novel in the future.
Catching up on my 2024 reading challenge. I’ve selected a short read for #8 so I’m going to make it!
This was my Halloween/October read that I finished on Thanksgiving. 370+ pages is a hefty read for me.
I wanted to read more horror genre this year after finishing Stephen King’s "On Writing." I went with Gallows Hill because it has been on my to-read list for a couple of years, and the cover design chilled me. Plus, the setting of an old manor paired with a winery on the grounds.
Darcy Coates crafts a story with foreboding tension and nail-biting moments galore. She has a strong command of imagery and prose. A well-written novel with a delicious mash-up of two of the genre’s famed unnatural villains.
Coates did overwrite at times, especially with the similes, such that it diluted the impact of the ones that were clever. And as much as I love the word “cacophony,” that one was overused, so too with “darts.”
But I loved that the protagonist’s birthday was September 7 (Virgo hive rise!) and will definitely be reading another Coates’ novel in the future.