The Hellbound Heart

This book was fine, but overall it was disappointing to me. The characters all felt very one note and unrealistic (Julia's actions were at least interesting but her reasons for doing them were pretty stupid), aside from Julia's murders the gore almost all takes place off-page or is barely described (why else am I reading this?) and the prose was so overwrought and goofy. There is a part near the end where Barker wants to convey that a dead character is possessed by one of the cenobites so that character turns to Kirsty and essentially just says, “I'm a cenobite!”