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A review by capn_beardy
Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham
3.0
I had high hopes for this because the premise and setting were just so unique. Alas, it didn’t live up to concept.
I enjoyed quite a bit of it, though. The main three pro tags were all decently realized and felt like mostly real people (awkward conversations about ketchup and fries aside), and I felt for them through their ordeal which helps in horror books. Likewise, the animals were surprisingly deep and had a real humanity about them, although I’m sure they’d hate me using that word to describe them!
However, I gotta agree with a lot of the other reviews I’ve read that this book is really over written. Just such frilly turns of phrase used so often and not always in situations that make any sense. I thought maybe the author was British, but nah, just trying a bit too hard it seems. The overwrought phrases and sentences took me out of the story so often.
Overall it was fine, it had some good mystery and some nice tense scenes to keep it going despite the writing problems.
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*SPOILRY GRIPE: Really? The captain just abandons them over night after foreshadowing the possibility of bears on the islands? Reallllllly?
I enjoyed quite a bit of it, though. The main three pro tags were all decently realized and felt like mostly real people (awkward conversations about ketchup and fries aside), and I felt for them through their ordeal which helps in horror books. Likewise, the animals were surprisingly deep and had a real humanity about them, although I’m sure they’d hate me using that word to describe them!
However, I gotta agree with a lot of the other reviews I’ve read that this book is really over written. Just such frilly turns of phrase used so often and not always in situations that make any sense. I thought maybe the author was British, but nah, just trying a bit too hard it seems. The overwrought phrases and sentences took me out of the story so often.
Overall it was fine, it had some good mystery and some nice tense scenes to keep it going despite the writing problems.
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*SPOILRY GRIPE: Really? The captain just abandons them over night after foreshadowing the possibility of bears on the islands? Reallllllly?