Lori
The idea of the book was particularly good, but the execution was a letdown. It started well with a good sense of mystery and creepy vibes. From there the constant altering of writing style was irritating. The screenplay setup is slow to get through and makes it hard to get into the story. Even without this, there is no character depth, and the story has been stretched out too far.
The plot description sounded like this could be a bit of a psychological thriller. I can see that that was what the author was going for, but that is far from what we got. The “movie” part is a pretentious art-house horror project done by kids. This often makes the characters unlikeable. Because of this, the drive of mystery is lost the farther you go into the story as you simply seem to care less about what happens.
The ending was anti-climatic after such a long setup. It mentions that each of the kids who worked on the horror movie all died. I thought it would be related to making the film, but they died quite ordinarily years after the filming. For such a promising idea I was disappointed after finishing this.
The idea of the book was particularly good, but the execution was a letdown. It started well with a good sense of mystery and creepy vibes. From there the constant altering of writing style was irritating. The screenplay setup is slow to get through and makes it hard to get into the story. Even without this, there is no character depth, and the story has been stretched out too far.
The plot description sounded like this could be a bit of a psychological thriller. I can see that that was what the author was going for, but that is far from what we got. The “movie” part is a pretentious art-house horror project done by kids. This often makes the characters unlikeable. Because of this, the drive of mystery is lost the farther you go into the story as you simply seem to care less about what happens.
The ending was anti-climatic after such a long setup. It mentions that each of the kids who worked on the horror movie all died. I thought it would be related to making the film, but they died quite ordinarily years after the filming. For such a promising idea I was disappointed after finishing this.