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Lusus Naturae by Chris Coppel
2.0
fast-paced

I received this book on Netgalley in exchange for a honnest review. 

First of all it's more thriller than horror per se. The pace is really really fast, the story happening only over a few days. 

It's not a bad story, and it is clearly visible that researches have been made. But that's maybe the issue for me, kind of. Too much dumpinfo, the first 30 pages or so are just that and I struggle to go past this. Long description of thing that don't really give depth to the story and then light description and faster pace on parts that should have been more developed for the sake of the "plot".

I also have some problem to stick with the story and the protagonists because the stylistic is a bit poor and the writing kind of uneven. It's not badly written - I don't like that expression in review 😅 - but it's a bit too low in term of stylistic for my own tastes. I had difficulty to keep my intention on the narrative instead of the grammar and stylistics.

Not my cup of tea. But tastes and colors ....