Based on everything on the cover--art, blurbs, jacket-flap summary--this novel looks for all the world like a Horror novel, and it sorta kinda plays at being one, sometimes. It's not. It's a novel about crime, and there's a little tension in it, and a twist or three (mostly crap, just total rugpulls with no textual clues) but it mostly just kinda trundles along. The big weirdness I noticed is that though the voice is clearly and distinctly Brit--especially in some moments of dialogue--this version/edition at least is typeset so as to be more familiar to Americans (spelling and punctuation); what's weird is that there's nothing about any of the places in it to put it anywhere, either American or English--there's nothing remarkable enough about the setting to keep it from being wherever the reader imagines it to be. Which kinda goes with the rest of the novel, really, there's not much distinctive about the characters or anything else in the story.
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Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
This is labeled as an epistolary novel, but that's not entirely right. There are entries that could not possibly have been written, fr...
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I read this book like thirty years ago (ack!) when I was in college, and I remembered liking it, and when my wife picked it as a classic-i...
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The cover text calls this something like "one of the most important novels" blah blah blah. It's not a novel, it's a disc...
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Not a novel, which ... well ... some of the events described in the book would stretch credulity in fiction. It's a book about the lie...
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