Last Days

I'm very divided on this one. I'm rating it a three, as the average of maybe a four for ideas and a two for execution. The core concept of the book is solid, I dug the framing device of making a documentary, the use of a sixties slash seventies cult gave me oddly nostalgic vibes, the old friends are awesomely creepy, and the bits where the characters encounter them are satisfyingly scary. Unfortunately, though, actually reading it is a bit of a slog. I think there are just too many repeated beats. Kyle and Dan travel to a new location, interview an ex-cultist, learn essentially the same information, encounter disturbing signs that they aren't alone, argue about whether to continue working on the documentary, then Kyle gets attacked at night, over and over. There's very little forward momentum until maybe three quarters of the way through the book.

Also, at one point, an American character refers to a flashlight as a torch. Unforgivable.