Penpal
Warning: SPOILERS!!
I just finished reading Penpel by Dathan Auerbach for the first time and it was disappointing for me to say the least, but not in the way most people would expect.
I read reviews of the book of people saying they had to put the book in their freezer or under their bed to not be as scared but for me, this book was devastating. It was well written, but I didn't find it scary at all, I found it immensely sad and heart breaking.
I was expecting a slow burn of scariness but instead I got hit with waves of sadness, loss and death. Am I the only one that feels this way?
To clarify, I am not dissing the book in any way, it was not bad. I just wish I prepared myself to cry a lot instead of preparing myself to be scared. Because I wasn't scared, I was crushed. By the reveal of Josh's last moments, imagining everything from the mother's perspective, Victoria's accident and death, and honestly just the ending as a whole. I'm finding it difficult to explain because I wasn't expecting a happy ending, but I wasn't expecting this either.
TLDR: Does anyone else find PenPal very sad and not scary?