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A review by southern_chime
Horrorama by A.S. Coomer, Lucas Mangum, Matt Harvey
2.0
Horrorama is a collection of 3 novellas. It is meant to be dark and campy like a b movie marathon. The cover of the book fits the theme perfectly. Even though I wasn’t especially fond of the book itself, I will keep my copy of the book because of how much I love the cover.
Let’s start with the positives: the third story The Vessel by Matt Harvey was great. It was dark, somewhat funny, and had really interesting characters. If this was a stand alone I’d give it 4 out of 5 stars.
Now the negatives: The first story, Store-all-self-storage had an interesting enough premise and started well but it failed to really hold my attention. The characters weren’t compelling so it was impossible to get invested in the story. 2/5 stars
The second story, Primitive, was my least favorite of the three. Instead of feeling fun and campy, it was draining to read. I didn’t care for the characters and their actions often didn’t make a ton of sense. I also feel like the story could have been a fair bit shorter and still gotten the point across. 1/5 stars
Let’s start with the positives: the third story The Vessel by Matt Harvey was great. It was dark, somewhat funny, and had really interesting characters. If this was a stand alone I’d give it 4 out of 5 stars.
Now the negatives: The first story, Store-all-self-storage had an interesting enough premise and started well but it failed to really hold my attention. The characters weren’t compelling so it was impossible to get invested in the story. 2/5 stars
The second story, Primitive, was my least favorite of the three. Instead of feeling fun and campy, it was draining to read. I didn’t care for the characters and their actions often didn’t make a ton of sense. I also feel like the story could have been a fair bit shorter and still gotten the point across. 1/5 stars