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A review by kimberlybetweenstanzas
No Doors, No Windows by Joe Schreiber
4.0
Creepy & Mysterious, yet Typical.
There were creepy parts, I will admit. The story is told well; the pace is perfect and kept me interested. There was also the all too familiar reason for the supernatural and it felt forced. There were too many convenient coincidences that I just can't get over.
There's many stories that have the same big reveal and have these parallels that I should have expected with this book. It was going so well. I was being lead to believe (and really wanted) this whole story was a psychotic breakdown.
What could have made this book better for me? I want the main character, that I learn to adore, to experience horrible events, only to wake up and realize they need a psych evaluation. But getting what I wanted would have made me unhappy still. So my expectations are met, but my predictions were not which is how it should be.
I'm a complicated person.
Amazing characters should end up at the bottom of a pond in the backyard of a creepy house in the middle of nowhere. Why? Because that makes the story better. That makes the reader remember.
This is my first read from Schreiber. I am impressed with his imagery, character detail, and suspense building so much that I am now a fan.
There were creepy parts, I will admit. The story is told well; the pace is perfect and kept me interested. There was also the all too familiar reason for the supernatural and it felt forced. There were too many convenient coincidences that I just can't get over.
There's many stories that have the same big reveal and have these parallels that I should have expected with this book. It was going so well. I was being lead to believe (and really wanted) this whole story was a psychotic breakdown.
What could have made this book better for me? I want the main character, that I learn to adore, to experience horrible events, only to wake up and realize they need a psych evaluation. But getting what I wanted would have made me unhappy still. So my expectations are met, but my predictions were not which is how it should be.
I'm a complicated person.
Amazing characters should end up at the bottom of a pond in the backyard of a creepy house in the middle of nowhere. Why? Because that makes the story better. That makes the reader remember.
This is my first read from Schreiber. I am impressed with his imagery, character detail, and suspense building so much that I am now a fan.