Heather
This is less the kind of book you read straight through, and more the kind of book you pick up here and there, and flip to a page at random.
What a fun ride. This was not high brow literature, but it wasn't trying to be; it was a fun, funny, sometimes gross romp. I love unique twists on the zombie genre, and this was a good one.
I wasn't sure until the very end of this book whether I hated it or loved it. Turns out I loved it. I can't describe it without spoilers, so I'll just leave it at that.
This one will stay with me awhile. I saw the end coming, but the way it was narrated made up for its predictability. I feel like I need to eventually reread this to fully absorb everything.
I started reading this during a fleeting interest in Appalachian folklore. It was interesting, but when my interest in Appalachian folklore waned, so did my interest in finishing this.
I figured out where this was going less than an hour into listening to it, and the writing wasn't good enough to make me want to finish it despite knowing the ending.
I started reading this during an extremely difficult period of my life, and it was helpful at the time. However, as I began to heal from that period, I fell off reading this and never felt the need to pick it up again. I may revisit it in the future, but for now it belongs to a past experience and era of my life.
Lost interest about halfway through as the themes became repetitive and I stopped caring about the characters.
This book wasn't what I was expecting based on many of the reviews I've seen. I found it slow, and the writing often overly stylized. Ultimately, I could neither identify with nor become emotionally invested in the characters, so I decided to DNF and move on.
This book was hyped by a lot of people as one of the scariest books they'd ever read. I kept waiting for that to be true for me too, and it never was. There was zero character development, and therefore zero stakes. The only truly disturbing thing in the book had nothing to do with the plot whatsoever, and isn't exactly going to keep me up at night. Really disappointing.
This was a fun, quick read that should have been twice as long. There were time jumps that encapsulated a lot of story progression that should have been explored in more detail, foreshadowing for things that never actually came to pass, and characters that deserved a lot more attention than they got. That being said, I'm not mad at the time I spent with this book; I'm just disappointed that it felt kind of incomplete.