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A review by versmonesprit
Ankle Snatcher by Grady Hendrix
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
1.0
This is the first time I regret having purchased something written by Grady Hendrix, and funnily enough, it’s the first I read by him that features a male narrator. While his female leads are so well done, I found his male narrative voice inauthentic and unoriginal.
And of all the things he could’ve done with the premise of the bogeyman, I was disappointed to see he chose to do nothing whatsoever with “creature feature” and turned it into social commentary. I like horror symbolism, but I don’t think this was a good analogy, and I really did not want to read about femicides here when he did an immensely better job at that commentary in The Final Girl Support Group within a single paragraph:
And of all the things he could’ve done with the premise of the bogeyman, I was disappointed to see he chose to do nothing whatsoever with “creature feature” and turned it into social commentary. I like horror symbolism, but I don’t think this was a good analogy, and I really did not want to read about femicides here when he did an immensely better job at that commentary in The Final Girl Support Group within a single paragraph:
[…] and I’m every girl who’s ever run from a man with a weapon, every girl who ever ran for her life across spaces where she was supposed to be safe. […] and he can’t catch me, I’m as fast as all of us put together, […] I’m the fastest girl in the world.
If he had gone a more symbolic way, I might’ve liked this a lot better.