The Ghost that Ate Us

⭐⭐ — Great cover on this one!

I feel like I should have enjoyed this one more than I did. The ending was fantastic, but by god was it a slog to get there.

This was a fun experiment from an author I'm not super familiar with, and from what I've gleaned I think I might have been more well served by his more traditional novels.

I really like the concept of this, it's one of those ideas that feels almost tailor-made for me, but I feel like it was being pulled in too many opposite directions and it wasn't able to really excel in any of them. I think the horror elements and true-crime elements both dampened each other's impact and the parody non-fiction elements made the comedy feel a bit tonally out of place. It's kind of like if an artist had full palette of vibrant colors, and instead of using them to highlight and enhance each other, he mixed them together until everything was a boring ruddy brown.

It did really pick up near the end which was pretty much perfect, and bumped it up to a 4 for me, but it was just a little too late.