Very Kingesque, gave me chills and thrills, a really really tasteful psychological thriller/horror (at least for my taste).
It starts off reall4.5/5 ⭐
Very Kingesque, gave me chills and thrills, a really really tasteful psychological thriller/horror (at least for my taste).
It starts off really strong, the atmosphere is quite gripping and the characters remind me a lot of the ones in Stephen King's Pet Sematary and even The Shining. It's a great mix of psychological horror, paranormal activity, science fiction elements and really well individualised characters.
I've been waiting for a good horror like this for quite some time and I finally found it. So if you are a fan of Stephen King's works like I am, I do recommend this for a chilling, gripping and unputdownable experience!...more
Hi. Welcome. I had no expectations for this. 384 pages later I finish it and tell myself that I am glad I didn't because I seriously enjoyed th4.5/5 ⭐
Hi. Welcome. I had no expectations for this. 384 pages later I finish it and tell myself that I am glad I didn't because I seriously enjoyed this so much, maybe too much. And that's mostly because it seemed quite an unique story with a plot idea that (to me) is something else in the Final Girls universe.
It was a thriller with heavy slasher horror accents, an unsettling but cinematic description of events, with good background stories and sustained arguments. The idea of taking actual slasher movies from the 70s, 80s and 90s, turning them into real-life stories that were the base of the movies, but going above and beyond and telling the story of the survivors once the show is over is a bit complicated to grasp but so so ingenious; and I'm talking big names like Scream and A Nightmare on Elm Street and so on. It's like fiction about reality that inspired fiction.
(Now your head explodes)
I couldn't be completely immersed in the horror genre, but it was an excellent jump between the horror and the thriller, a very good back-and-forth that was somehow keeping me on the edge constantly.
I can see why this isn't everyone's cup of tea, but it was mine and I enjoyed every single page of it. This was a great case of a page-turner book for me for sure....more
I am extremely pained to say that even though I wished to give this a 4.5-star rating, I just couldn't. And I will explain why in a few pa4.45/5 ⭐
I am extremely pained to say that even though I wished to give this a 4.5-star rating, I just couldn't. And I will explain why in a few paragraphs later.
But first - I enjoyed this very much. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that at some point I felt like I was watching a movie and not reading a whole bloody book, that's how visual the whole writing was.
It had everything - suspense, drama, great characters, great story, great background stories, great visuals, atmosphere. Exceptional plot-twists. I could recommend this book solely thanks to some very well-placed twists in the plot.
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Now, I will talk a little bit about these plot twists. They exist because the action is so complex, happening on so many plans, with a bunch of characters intertwining, crashing and combining all over the story, that your brain is simply caught off-guard when something enlightening happens. Your brain is so caught up in finding out who? where? why? how?? did something happen and then BAM! You got played. PLOT TWIST! Amazing.
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I liked that the characters were nicely individualised, you could actually see and understand what kind of personalities they had, and what kind of typologies were they representing and I think that is great, especially when it comes to a thriller.
However, there was something I simply couldn't completely get over and that's why this review isn't sporting a 5 golden star rating right now. It's because even though I love multiple POVs in books and I also love time-lapses with stories that go back and forth through decades (and this book had them both!), I can't really deal with multiple-person narratives. I hate when the POVs switch and they also change the person of the narrative. From first to third to first again and then third again. Or maybe it's gonna be first again? Who knows!! Sadly, this was the one minus this novel had and for me, it weighed heavy enough. Changes of perspective are alright but not mixed with first-third person switches and time lapses. It just gets confusing.
I don't want you to let this little thing that bothered me get in the way of any of you picking this up because everything about the story itself is great and I will keep recommending it even so. Just give it a try!...more
This series is really fun to read, short books, action-packed and sassy little comments from Murderbot is definitely the key to the success of th4/5 ⭐
This series is really fun to read, short books, action-packed and sassy little comments from Murderbot is definitely the key to the success of the series!...more
So far, this is my least favourite Emily Henry book, but not because it was a bad book. It wasn't a bad book at all, the concept was really go3.45/5 ⭐
So far, this is my least favourite Emily Henry book, but not because it was a bad book. It wasn't a bad book at all, the concept was really good, I liked the way the time was presented from the summer they met twelve years ago to the present day. I liked the holiday destinations and the whole travel magazine-style experience. But I didn't feel like the overall book was memorable. I wasn't the biggest fan of the characters and the little plot elements weren't that impeccable either.
It was a light and fun read, quite good for beach or pool days (I started this on a beach in Greece so it's definitely vacation-material), but it lacked something the other romances written by her had....more
I will be honest, to me, this book looked overall like it was still an unfinished and unrefined draft of a story that could be so good, so fut2.45/5 ⭐
I will be honest, to me, this book looked overall like it was still an unfinished and unrefined draft of a story that could be so good, so futuristic and also full of mystery and a bit of angst. The story of the two sisters in different environments and different times, the mystery of Cee getting to that place without any trace of memory, the way Kay was trying to bring Cee back, the jump between then and now, the idea of an eco-city built specifically because the nature is raging against the human waste. All of these are great elements. Sadly, it just felt poorly executed from start to finish. Thank god for the gorgeous cover though!...more
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