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The Street Between the Pines: A Souther New England Horror
by J.J. Alo, J.J. Alo
slow-paced
Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC. All thoughts are my own.
This had the bones to be interesting but ultimately I was bored throughout the entirety of the novel.
Stylistically, I disliked a lot of the word choice and felt like it needed another round of edits. For example, “ocular sockets” was used instead of “eyes” and “breaks” was used instead of “brakes”. I also felt like there was too much description and detail. It was paragraphs and paragraphs of detail that felt unnecessary to the story. The pacing was extremely slow and while it’s possible it was bogged down by the amount of details, I think it was just a slow paced story.
The monster intro was spectacularly cool, and I thought I’d be in for an action packed horror/thriller but ultimately, the action only made up like 10% of the story. I will say, it did remind me a lot of Stephen King’s brand of horror which I think was part of the intent, and it was well executed. Also, while I didn’t like Curtis as a character, I do think he was complex and well developed, just unlikeable.
This had the bones to be interesting but ultimately I was bored throughout the entirety of the novel.
Stylistically, I disliked a lot of the word choice and felt like it needed another round of edits. For example, “ocular sockets” was used instead of “eyes” and “breaks” was used instead of “brakes”. I also felt like there was too much description and detail. It was paragraphs and paragraphs of detail that felt unnecessary to the story. The pacing was extremely slow and while it’s possible it was bogged down by the amount of details, I think it was just a slow paced story.
The monster intro was spectacularly cool, and I thought I’d be in for an action packed horror/thriller but ultimately, the action only made up like 10% of the story. I will say, it did remind me a lot of Stephen King’s brand of horror which I think was part of the intent, and it was well executed. Also, while I didn’t like Curtis as a character, I do think he was complex and well developed, just unlikeable.