jobinsonlis 's review for:

Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano

3.0

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I like the mixed media aspect of this novel but ultimately I think it bloats an already bloated story past the point where I could care about the reveals. Normally horror with a prominent gimmick is too short, usually to the detriment of developing the characters, but the characters aren’t developed particularly well here even with the extra length since most of the sections just rehashed information we already had or asked the same questions again. Willow, Rita, and Lily were probably the strongest characters but they were still thinly characterized. Also no scene in the book was as creepy and unsettling as the first scene with Gloria and her neighbor, which made the remaining four hundred pages a slog.