This was so boring that I maybe lost my mind a bit. I think that it was just repetitive to the point that it induced sleep. I started this at the beginning of August and I had to keep setting it aside because it was so freaking slow. I am very annoyed that I even bought this book and should have not gotten excited about a story told about being a teenage slasher.
SGJ telling the story of what makes a slasher, and the “rules” just didn’t give me enough there. I don’t know why I was supposed to care about Tolly. I did care about Amber, but we don’t get enough of her outside of Tolly saying her full name all the time. I am still really confused times a thousand about who some of the kids were/what they did, etc. I just gave up after a while.
The writing was painful. There are just really long sentences that do not stop and just kept going on and on and on. I also loathe it when an author has a character talking to the audience and going, “and this will be important later”, “or X person would not have long to live after this moment”. Shut. Up.
The flow, again, painful.
I thought the setting of the small town in Texas at first seemed perfect for this book. We hear about the accidental death of one teen and it seemed like something that could only happen in Texas. But from there, it just didn’t work for me. We hear about certain people, certain things, but I think SGP should have laid out a map of the town, fully explained the set-up, families, etc. I hated the voice of Tolly going on and on about someone and making it seem like you should know who he was talking about.
The ending was a mess. I am not even trying to wade through what happened to who or how because I really didn’t care that much about it at all.
This may go down as my least favorite read this year.
I read this for CBR17bingo, “I” square.