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Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
3.0
So four horror writers go into a haunted house on Halloween and not much happens.
A lot of this books felt like "please, just get to the point." Especially the end. Most of the characters were disappointing. Maybe if the writers knew each other better.
So our writers are:
I thought Sam, the Protagionist was gonna be a Stephen King but he's only written four books. He's your bland midwestener with a terrible secret and failing marriage.
Moore is meant to be modern indie success who become famous writing monster porn? Most of those were jokes. There is a author who started in exotic and had big sucess with horror thriller book so I guess it works for this purpose. Moore is more sexualized than the men in the way she written and is the only female character with unargueable agency. Anyway Moore likes to write naked and uses sex as weapon. Her back story is hm. The way she written is very much a man wrote this. It not the worst case and might not have picked up on it if not for being surrounded by a man wrote this. More could have been done with Moore.
Dan Slaughter is a profilic YA writer a.k.a. R.L.Sline but super Christian. It does not come back to the book so was dumb. Especially, as in real life it was just a trend dying out and YA was becoming more sophisticated than 180 pages of format. Not sure why this author wasn't a women considering Point Horror was dominantly written by Women and the reason any one remembers Sline now is for his children books. Also YA is the one genre fill by Woman writers, though I guess the few men do always get picked up on.
A lot of things could have been done to make this character interesting. Play up the ghostwriting, make a thing of R.L. Sline comparing himself to King, desperate to be an adult writer. Other cliches.
Actually more smack talk would have madd this book Way more interesting.
Sebastian Cole is the old school horror stand in. He is more interesting than a racist too lazy to write discriptions so that is a bonus.
The idea maybe could have worked but it just seems lot of missed opportunity. I think problem is that never cared that much about the characters and they reacted the same way so they became a bland mess.
Also I watched Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House while in the middle of reading this book. It has simiarities, like a mysterious room that no one can get into and it just done so much better than this. I mean I actually care about those characters.
In film disclosesure I also watch A Haunting to go to sleep at night and some times I think of those people are idiots and they meant to be real (lol some times I have think they all just actors and we know the Warrens are Lying demons). Anyway I'm a desensitised monster.
Overall, I give this 3/5 stars for ignorable ghosts. I want it be more interesting and not full of sterotypes. When it broke that, I liked it better.
A lot of this books felt like "please, just get to the point." Especially the end. Most of the characters were disappointing. Maybe if the writers knew each other better.
So our writers are:
I thought Sam, the Protagionist was gonna be a Stephen King but he's only written four books. He's your bland midwestener with a terrible secret and failing marriage.
Moore is meant to be modern indie success who become famous writing monster porn? Most of those were jokes. There is a author who started in exotic and had big sucess with horror thriller book so I guess it works for this purpose. Moore is more sexualized than the men in the way she written and is the only female character with unargueable agency. Anyway Moore likes to write naked and uses sex as weapon. Her back story is hm. The way she written is very much a man wrote this. It not the worst case and might not have picked up on it if not for being surrounded by a man wrote this. More could have been done with Moore.
Dan Slaughter is a profilic YA writer a.k.a. R.L.Sline but super Christian. It does not come back to the book so was dumb. Especially, as in real life it was just a trend dying out and YA was becoming more sophisticated than 180 pages of format. Not sure why this author wasn't a women considering Point Horror was dominantly written by Women and the reason any one remembers Sline now is for his children books. Also YA is the one genre fill by Woman writers, though I guess the few men do always get picked up on.
A lot of things could have been done to make this character interesting. Play up the ghostwriting, make a thing of R.L. Sline comparing himself to King, desperate to be an adult writer. Other cliches.
Actually more smack talk would have madd this book Way more interesting.
Sebastian Cole is the old school horror stand in. He is more interesting than a racist too lazy to write discriptions so that is a bonus.
The idea maybe could have worked but it just seems lot of missed opportunity. I think problem is that never cared that much about the characters and they reacted the same way so they became a bland mess.
Also I watched Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House while in the middle of reading this book. It has simiarities, like a mysterious room that no one can get into and it just done so much better than this. I mean I actually care about those characters.
In film disclosesure I also watch A Haunting to go to sleep at night and some times I think of those people are idiots and they meant to be real (lol some times I have think they all just actors and we know the Warrens are Lying demons). Anyway I'm a desensitised monster.
Overall, I give this 3/5 stars for ignorable ghosts. I want it be more interesting and not full of sterotypes. When it broke that, I liked it better.
Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde
4.0
This book feels like it needs an editor.
I appreciate what Wilde is trying to do, showing diversity and addressing issues that she witness/has. However, Sometimes it was real preachy or sudden fixes, which life is not.
I'm going to a Own Voices review/discussion video talking the Autistic stuff, I know Wilde is Autistic herself and I totally understand the want show that in characters, I just think they is a discussion on how she does that. I just have some feelings and opinions.
I like this book overall, there was some cute things in it. The romances were good and healthy, except when they weren't meant to be. Some things were just cringe for me. Chapter 27 really just made me cringed the whole way through. Just The whole thing. The YouTuber side is just wrong in this book, I think Charlie either needed to be actress or YouTuber. Both sides didn't really work together. There's several incidents, that just don't make sense.
Timelines are a bit of mess as well, an indie film would not film for over six months. That's what blockbusters do. 12 weeks is probably the normal, though even less, (low budget zombie film "The Girl with all the Gifts" was filmed in seven weeks). I don't know if it was just a mistake. But they meet on the set and they break up before shooting is wrapped, and there's a line that confirms that stayed together for six months after the relationship went bad. It's minor thing but it bugged me. There seems to be a lot reality breaks in this book anyway though. Probably best not to think about it.
I appreciate what Wilde is trying to do, showing diversity and addressing issues that she witness/has. However, Sometimes it was real preachy or sudden fixes, which life is not.
I'm going to a Own Voices review/discussion video talking the Autistic stuff, I know Wilde is Autistic herself and I totally understand the want show that in characters, I just think they is a discussion on how she does that. I just have some feelings and opinions.
I like this book overall, there was some cute things in it. The romances were good and healthy, except when they weren't meant to be. Some things were just cringe for me. Chapter 27 really just made me cringed the whole way through. Just The whole thing. The YouTuber side is just wrong in this book, I think Charlie either needed to be actress or YouTuber. Both sides didn't really work together. There's several incidents, that just don't make sense.
Timelines are a bit of mess as well, an indie film would not film for over six months. That's what blockbusters do. 12 weeks is probably the normal, though even less, (low budget zombie film "The Girl with all the Gifts" was filmed in seven weeks). I don't know if it was just a mistake. But they meet on the set and they break up before shooting is wrapped, and there's a line that confirms that stayed together for six months after the relationship went bad. It's minor thing but it bugged me. There seems to be a lot reality breaks in this book anyway though. Probably best not to think about it.