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A review by joyceisbooked
Burn the Negative by Josh Winning
3.25
i loved the first half of the book. it kept me hooked. it did fall apart once we got to wrapping the story up. i fell off a bit when the sister got introduced. lost me even more when the prime suspect in 3 murders was able to walk into a prison with a Hollywood disguise and a fake ID to get more info. really lost me when we drove 2 hours from Victorville down "Needles Freeway" to the middle of the desert. I'm from SoCal and driving a Volvo all over town and only stopping for gas once rubbed me the wrong way. and they stole beverly's car! hate them for that! shes driving you all around for hours without asking for gas money and you've choked this lady twice. and yall just abandoned her at a motel in the desert? boooo!
i know cops suck but it took them 5 days to find this lady. this book exists in a timeline where we have Instagram and tiktok there is no way the main character didn't get spotted before they went to the desert. why didn't the cops run her info when they found her at the first crime scene? how did they not discover that she was Polly? changing your name can do a lot but it doesnt completely erase your old identity from the face of the earth, especially with law enforcement?
at the climax of the plot when they confront the monster, the abandoned building they're standing in is doused in gas by Laura but they have the time to run all around the house and up two floors to find an exit and chat about the monster? I've never been in a house fire but i don't think we would have time for all that. its a really old building in the desert i would have expected it to burn a lot faster!
laura/polly hates Hollywood so much and when her sister asks for her blessing to play her in the sequel, it felt unbelievable. we went through all that death and suffering and she doesn't see anything wrong about playing a role that literally scared her sister for life? Amy literally saw the trauma manifest in her sister and she was still ok with participating in anything relating to this series? I'm an only child and i know that's a bad sister move.
I liked the other forms of media at the chapter breaks because it gave us a little world-building. fun thriller in the beginning but i think we might have fumbled before the goal line.
i know cops suck but it took them 5 days to find this lady. this book exists in a timeline where we have Instagram and tiktok there is no way the main character didn't get spotted before they went to the desert. why didn't the cops run her info when they found her at the first crime scene? how did they not discover that she was Polly? changing your name can do a lot but it doesnt completely erase your old identity from the face of the earth, especially with law enforcement?
at the climax of the plot when they confront the monster, the abandoned building they're standing in is doused in gas by Laura but they have the time to run all around the house and up two floors to find an exit and chat about the monster? I've never been in a house fire but i don't think we would have time for all that. its a really old building in the desert i would have expected it to burn a lot faster!
laura/polly hates Hollywood so much and when her sister asks for her blessing to play her in the sequel, it felt unbelievable. we went through all that death and suffering and she doesn't see anything wrong about playing a role that literally scared her sister for life? Amy literally saw the trauma manifest in her sister and she was still ok with participating in anything relating to this series? I'm an only child and i know that's a bad sister move.
I liked the other forms of media at the chapter breaks because it gave us a little world-building. fun thriller in the beginning but i think we might have fumbled before the goal line.