Genre: Horror
Release Date: August 8th, 2023
Pages: 288
Publisher: Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House)
My Rating: DNF
I want to start by saying that this is an author that traditionally I absolutely love. Her previous fantasy series are some of my favorites.
Last year when she released her adult/horror debut I was pretty excited for something new and fresh, but it just wasn’t well executed. And I was really hoping that after the feedback from her last release, improvements would have been made to her work in this genre.
But sadly, I was wrong. This one, yet again, didn’t do it for me. Yet again another book that is not developed nearly enough. It’s surface-level at best with its characters.
The pacing and sequence jumps around a lot. I kept feeling like I missed something but no it actually just skips right over it. I didn’t really get what was going on, it just wasn’t fleshed out well.
This reads like an author’s rough draft journal of random scenes without actually fitting them together nor adding in the necessary details. It’s a skeleton of a book, without the meat. I wanted to like it… but I ended up DNFing because unfortunately I just really didn’t.
Disclaimers:
Huge thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for gifting me an early copy. I voluntarily read and reviewed this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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