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A review by erina
Amityville Horrible by Kelley Armstrong
4.0
Amityville Horrible was a very fun read and fans of Kelley Armstrong will enjoy it. While it is a very short novella it has some mystery, it is both funny and spooky, and it offers glimpses into the Otherworld and some of our favorite characters from it. Like Kelley's other novellas this one is likely best enjoyed by fans of her books who know the back stories and relationships. New readers will simply not get as much out of this book.
My favorite part of Amityville--as with all of her books-- was the characters. I'll admit when Jamie and Jeremy got together in No Humans Involved I was a little eked out. After all in her previous books I had always perceived Jeremy as asexual and reading about Jeremy and Jamie was not unlike reading about older family members getting it on. Shudder. But over the course of several books--where Jeremy and Jamie were secondary characters--I got used to them as a couple, and it was really nice to see their romance, their sweet interactions, and, of course, to see Jeremy knock down a door or two to save our, increasingly capable, necromancer.
While not nearly as developed as Kelley's novels, Amityville Horrible, like her other novellas, provides an entertaining glimpse into the lives of beloved characters, and, for this fan, is definitely worth the read.
One quick afterthought: while the story was great :) and I thoroughly enjoyed it, the illustrations were awful :P. The same illustrator has worked on some of her other works and is consistently bad. The illustrations add nothing to the story and, at least for me, their awfulness stood in direct contrast to Kelley's awesomeness and because of that were distracting. So Kelley, if you ever follow these reviews, please lobby for your other illustrator, Xavier, to do the illustrations for all your subt. books. Thank you.
My favorite part of Amityville--as with all of her books-- was the characters. I'll admit when Jamie and Jeremy got together in No Humans Involved I was a little eked out. After all in her previous books I had always perceived Jeremy as asexual and reading about Jeremy and Jamie was not unlike reading about older family members getting it on. Shudder. But over the course of several books--where Jeremy and Jamie were secondary characters--I got used to them as a couple, and it was really nice to see their romance, their sweet interactions, and, of course, to see Jeremy knock down a door or two to save our, increasingly capable, necromancer.
While not nearly as developed as Kelley's novels, Amityville Horrible, like her other novellas, provides an entertaining glimpse into the lives of beloved characters, and, for this fan, is definitely worth the read.
One quick afterthought: while the story was great :) and I thoroughly enjoyed it, the illustrations were awful :P. The same illustrator has worked on some of her other works and is consistently bad. The illustrations add nothing to the story and, at least for me, their awfulness stood in direct contrast to Kelley's awesomeness and because of that were distracting. So Kelley, if you ever follow these reviews, please lobby for your other illustrator, Xavier, to do the illustrations for all your subt. books. Thank you.