The prologue was okay. I like dark, mysterious thrillers so I was giving this book a chance.
But then the first sentence in Chapter 1 starts out: “Blake knows she’s in a gothic horror novel the moment she steps off the rain-slicked ferry.”
Is it just me, or is that an incredibly lazy way to begin a story? Instead of describing the setting in a unique way, the author just calls upon our existing imagery of gothic horror novels and compares it to that. For real?? Idk if I should even keep reading. I don’t normally DNF so early, but that just hit me wrong.
Has anyone else read it? Is it worth it to keep reading or are similarly lazy cliches used throughout the book?
by CosmicOctopus_