This little horror novella is… well, nothing special.
The whole time, you’re reading about people experiencing creepy occurrences, but it has this detached tone where you don’t know how you feel about any of it. You’re presented with this unhinged and incredible series of events, along with mundane moments, as though it’s all normal life.
But it’s not. Ghosts, cannibalism, death… it’s not normal at all.
I enjoyed parts of it, but I couldn’t connect to any of the characters, which resulted in me not caring too much about what happened to them. Maybe I connected to the dog. Listen, if the writing was amazing or there was something else that blew me away, I would have bumped up the rating, but there was nothing that really stood out for me. It was just an okay book.
I was also hoping to get some kind of twist at least, some kind of NO WAY reaction at the end, but we didn’t get that either, so I suppose I can give this 3 stars, as it is not bad, just not great.
If you like disturbing and creepy things happening to a bunch of people, but you mostly care about the creepiness and the story, not the people, then you might like this better than I did. I know one is able to develop incredibly deep characters in novellas, so I don’t think the size of the book is to blame. It’s not even a bad thing necessarily, it’s just not great for readers who prefer character-based stories.
Atmosphere and plot can only go so far for me. What about you?
-Reviewed by Violeta Nedkova
