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Go Hunt Me
by Kelly deVos
A group of student filmmakers get the opportunity of a lifetime when a famous actress decides to back their Dracula-inspired film project. Her support helps them crowdfund a bigger budget than they ever imagined, and she even hooks them up with the perfect filming location: the actual Romanian castle said to have inspired the original Dracula. However, when they arrive at the castle things are not quite right. They are stranded in the castle with no way to get ahold of the outside world, someone has stolen the money from their Gofundme account, and they soon realize they are not alone in the castle after all.
I wanted to like this, since I love Dracula, and I also really enjoyed the author's other book (Eat Your Heart Out). Unfortunately, it just fell a bit flat for me. The story doesn't take off until fully halfway through the book, they don't even arrive at the castle until about 40% in, and even with all that exposition time, the characters still felt flat and I didn't feel like I knew anything about any of them. This made it hard to feel afraid for them or care what happened to them in the castle, and once the action does pick up it all happens so fast that there is no real time to feel suspense or fear. The ending was interesting but didn't really do the rest of the story justice, and overall the read just didn't pan out for me.
It was still a cool concept and I'm sure other people might like it more than I did.
*Thank you to Penguin Teen for an ARC of this to review!
I wanted to like this, since I love Dracula, and I also really enjoyed the author's other book (Eat Your Heart Out). Unfortunately, it just fell a bit flat for me. The story doesn't take off until fully halfway through the book, they don't even arrive at the castle until about 40% in, and even with all that exposition time, the characters still felt flat and I didn't feel like I knew anything about any of them. This made it hard to feel afraid for them or care what happened to them in the castle, and once the action does pick up it all happens so fast that there is no real time to feel suspense or fear. The ending was interesting but didn't really do the rest of the story justice, and overall the read just didn't pan out for me.
It was still a cool concept and I'm sure other people might like it more than I did.
*Thank you to Penguin Teen for an ARC of this to review!