A little tip to aspiring writers when you’re describing a room. You don’t really need to go into every little detail of that room. Just give me the framework and my mind will generally fill in the rest too many times. I’m reading a horror novel and it suddenly turns into an architecture textbook.
Now from my opening you can probably tell how I feel about this book it definitely suffers from a case of why use one word when you can use four except it’s been upgraded to why Use one description when you can use two every single look every single comment this book describes is in such agonizing detail. And I get it. You really want to build a scene. You want to make it clear what the reader is looking at , which is fine, but there’s a fine line between describing a scene and chewing on a scene.
Now getting to the actual meat of the story itself. I’ve a got nothing Good to say to be honest, it’s your classic haunted house but also filled with. I mean honestly, some of the worst characters I’ve ever read and the thing about bad characters is they can be engaging, especially in horror when people are going to die. You’re like. Oh, I want to see these people die but these guys just suck I was struggling to get through this book. I hated the narrator. I hated every character involved in this book.
And then when we finally get to the horror it’s just never properly set up like we’re in the middle of this dumb interpersonal drama and I’m forgetting that I’m supposed to be scared. So when horror suddenly happens. It’s like I was watching an episode of gossip girl and then somebody accidentally put on the ring.
Overall it’s read likes an essay where someone was trying to pad there word count. Characters are tedious it’s not scary the ghost fails to make an impact. And if I’m being honest none of these people would still be friends if they were real. it’s a short novel that could definitely be much shorter.
Tldr your time on this earth is finite don’t waste it on this book
by AcanthaceaeOld241