Kill Creek

DNF
Where the book focuses on the house and its history it does fine. I was invested enough in the concept that I made it over a third of the way through. But he needs to work harder on character conception— none of these characters are well-developed enough or given the respect they're due.

The racist treatment of Kate (and in particular Moore's interactions with her were deeply uncomfortable), the ableist treatment of Rebecca Finch (we get it, people with disabilities are scary), the fatphobia inherent in the treatment of Slaughter (and the weirdly aggressive anti-religion aspect to that treatment) combined with a clunky concept, a horrifically dichotomous idea of horror (none of the author's seem to be able to think of horror as anything besides “what loving god would do this?”) drove me batty.

Not to mention the fact that none of the horror authors— or human beings— I know or have interacted with act anything like these.

All in all it just made me want to finish the Mabel podcast and go read Jeff Vandermeer or Victor Lavalle again. Meh.