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DNF 55%
This was an ok story about two widowers becoming friends over fishing with some spooky foreboding. Unfortunately, it then became a loooong convoluted flashback to Victorian(?) Europe with shades of the occult. Had there been fewer characters or shorter scenes it may have worked. But we go from two character first-person to multicast third-person and my give-a-damn waned to nothing.
This was an ok story about two widowers becoming friends over fishing with some spooky foreboding. Unfortunately, it then became a loooong convoluted flashback to Victorian(?) Europe with shades of the occult. Had there been fewer characters or shorter scenes it may have worked. But we go from two character first-person to multicast third-person and my give-a-damn waned to nothing.
Omg. Best horror book of the decade? I think it may be. Wow. This is SO GOOD.
May 10, 2021
SnazzyMoose (Lauren)
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DNF at 64%
It's painful for me to read about real tragedy. Even though I love horror it is the fantastic nature of it that buffers the impact of reading about characters meeting grisly ends. The beginning of this book made me sad and I just wanted to get past it. But it was a good thing to read cause it created empathy/sympathy for the characters. Loved all the weird scenes in the middle of the book. It was such a good read with novel situations that are built on shoulders of past authors. The imagery is g
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I was really looking forward to this, but was quite dissapointed. I very much wanted to get in to new authors and wanted to be supportive but I had to put this down as I couldn't finish it. Too much happens in this book too quickly and there is hardly any proper build up. I love Lovecraftian type of stories but the writing style is too economical and abbreviated to draw you in to the 'weird'. There are too many characters to keep track of; all of them have throughts, adventures and opinions whic
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