After „Horrorstör“ this is the second book I‘ve read by Grady Hendrix. I really enjoyed „Horrorstör“, it was interesting, the characters worked and it built up a few tense scenes. Over all it felt like reading a mediocre horror film.
But this novel lacked the thrill.
Plot: After Gretchen disappeared for a whole night after skinny dipping she starts to act unlike her and looks worse and worse. But no one seems to really care except her best friend Abby…
The true horror in this book were the adults and society in general. And to me it seemed like the author tried to point that out in an interesting way but it didn‘t really work and felt forced. And I just got mad. Not what I want to be when reading a horror novel.
In other reviews I read that the exorcism part is a pretty typical one. Good to know I don‘t enjoy books with exorcisms.
And another thing: at the end of pretty much every chapter were those „deep, something just has changed and it gets underlined by this sentence“ kind of sentences like: „She didn‘t know it was the beginning of the end“
I don‘t know if those were style choices based on how horror novels were written in the 80‘s (the time the novel plays in) or if I just didn‘t like the style.
