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A review by laila2u
The Omen by David Seltzer
4.0
Perfect way to end my one horror book a week during spooky season! And such a quick read.
Having never seen the movie, I entered this book with a blank slate, and boy was I freaked out. I thoroughly enjoyed the tense build up and also sudden death scenes throughout the book. Definitely a more mindless horror with less soul searching — but an interesting way to depict how a lie can derail your whole life.
I enjoyed the descriptions of satanism, and once past the first four chapters, couldn’t put it down.
Definitely hated the lack of Palestine acknowledgement + the random injection of Arabs being terrorists? I guess it’s just to set the scene in Israel but was definitely a bad section. However, the most helpful person in the story turns out to be Arab so idk….
Having never seen the movie, I entered this book with a blank slate, and boy was I freaked out. I thoroughly enjoyed the tense build up and also sudden death scenes throughout the book. Definitely a more mindless horror with less soul searching — but an interesting way to depict how a lie can derail your whole life.
I enjoyed the descriptions of satanism, and once past the first four chapters, couldn’t put it down.
Definitely hated the lack of Palestine acknowledgement + the random injection of Arabs being terrorists? I guess it’s just to set the scene in Israel but was definitely a bad section. However, the most helpful person in the story turns out to be Arab so idk….