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May be some spoilers …

I am about 75 percent finished reading this and it is brutal at times. Some Parts I’m enjoying the story and flying through it , but other parts there is just so much description that it becomes unbearable . The paragraphs are super long and I don’t do the Best with massive descriptions

I was really Enjoying the story of the two men, Abe and Dan. But once I got to the tale from the old man in the diner , it’s kind of been losing me. I have a few chapters left of the diner story , and I have to admit at a few times I almost decided to DNF. But it’s the only book I had at work with me so I continued through it .

I know it has some pet semetary vibes and that is my favorite movie /book of all times . I even have Sometimes dead is better tattooed across my arm and I’m about to add to it tomorrow (a cross with pet semetary written on it ).

I went to read the reviews on Amazon to give me a push , and most were really positive. There were a few 1-2 star reviews , but not many. And the lower reviews agreed with how o was feeling.

The part that lost me the most was when Rainer and his crew went to the mansion to “battle “ the Guest /Fisherman. The scene after the home turned into an ocean /forest completely lost me. Why did they have to kill the one guy ? (I forget his name , begins with an A). I know Jacob ended up killing his friend but there was so much description I lost interest in the “battle “ and kind of skimmed most of it/ words weren’t registering. I am on the final chapter of the old man’s tale from the diner and I decided to finish it through. But I am lost as to why Jacob had to kill the friend , so if someone could please explain to me that be helpful.

I have like 200 physical books to get to that I’m Excited about so I want to finish this book today . I am kind of just hate reading it now to finish. Although , I do admit there are parts that hook me and flow nicely . There are just some parts that have too much description.

One review said that they had to of been in the diner for 12 hours listening to the old man’s story of the creek. So if someone could just clear about that one death scene of Rainer and Jacob’s friend dying , that would be lovely ! Thank you !

And no hate to the author or book , the writing style was just not for me. I know people enjoy this book and this type of writing , but it’s just not something that resonates with me . And I’ve been reading horror and thrillers for 20 years , I’ve read hundreds of,prob even thousands of books . And when I was a kid , I also did a lot of horror reading as well .

Hello , so I have like over 200 books in my physical TBR . Mainly horror and thriller. I have composed two piles of books . I will either read the top/next book in either pile , depending on my mood when it’s time To pick. I put the books in piles in a good order. For example , super long , super short. Horror , then thriller . Etc. I am currently reading a shorter book , Hide, by Kiersten White . The book I finished before that was The Deep by Nick Cutter (a longer book ).

My next two choices after Hide is either The Fisherman by John Langan or Burial Tide by Neil Sharpson . Both books are roughly the same length and both horror. I am excited to read both , and will eventually this next coming month .

But which of the two would you reccomended I pick up first ? When I pick from my two piles , I can pick from pile 2 five times in a row if I want , I don’t have to rotate. And when I get new books I can put them up higher in the piles or even next if I want to . I also have a box in the other room of books that haven’t made it to the piles yet but I slowly add more to the two main piles as I read more.

I know it’s a goofy system lol . Does anyone else do stuff like this ? I have seen people do the wheel or a tbr jar but I’d never spend the time writing or typing each book out. I also love how people wrap the books and pick numbers from a jar , but it’s hard for me to wrap a couple Xmas gifts , so I’d NEVER do that.

Soooo which book do you recommend I crack into next ? Just asking for fun ..

So I was looking for deals on Amazon for horror Books and saw a bunch of Bentley Little books for a fair price so I grabbed a few . The descriptions of most the books sound really good . I have never heard anyone talking about them though … (doesn’t mean they aren’t good , as a lot of thriller authors I loved in the 2000s are hardly ever mentioned these days and are some of the best ones ). I was just wondering if anyone read any and what are some of your favorite titles ? I purchased The Academy and The Haunted . But am tempted to purchase some more as a lot of them sound really good !

MAY have some small spoilers …

So this was my first read by Rachel Harrison that I was pretty excited about . It sounded spooky and good . And ALOT of people were ranting and raving over her . I understand this was her first book she wrote .

The first half was almost a DNF for me . I don’t like long descriptions of rooms and places . I can picture the location much better with a smaller description most of the time.

The characters were also very unlikable And I didn’t understand why any of them continued to even be friends . They never talked about anything personal , and if it were brought up they would all act shocked like “you don’t bring that type of thing up !” And it wasn’t even super deep or dark things , just simple things like the main girl having an affair with a college teacher . Nothing super super crazy .

Also , Mae and Molly were awful people and the complete opposite of Elise . Elise didn’t even seem To like them and they didn’t seem To like her either . Like they roomed together in college and almost forced the friendship to continue into adulthood , even though they considered themselves “4 best friends “.

The second half of the book picked up a little more and I began to somewhat enjoy it and it had its creepy factor about it . However , idk how I feel about the ending where it’s explained what happened to Julie. MAY BE A BIG SPOILER HERE , so IF YOU HAVENT READ YET, STOP READING THIS !!

Do you guys think Julie is completely dead and it took her form/ memories or do you think SOME of Julie was still left in there ? Just a little Bit of her ? Also , why do you think they “allowed her” to go back home . Or was it part of their plan to recruit more people ? Why were some killed but she wanted to bring Elise with to join ?

didn’t get a pic because I was reading it on my way out … but .. Some posted that they were out of time and needed the next day off because their daughter tried committing “sucide the day night before and were not able To come into work the next day. And Led with, I’m usually a private person but…

Ofc , Amazon replied with : here are your options : PTO- With a textbook explanation LOA/etc , the usual.

Like WHY post that !?

So I’m coming off reading 2 back to back 4-5 star horror books and I pick this one up mostly because in my book journal I got for Christmas it has a section for “reading challenges “ and they all are things I don’t want to do , but one said to read a book that was turned into a movie and then watch the movie . I had this book as well as The Ritual to do that with , but since I already seen the ritual movie I wanted to read a book that I didn’t see the movie for .

The reviews on this book and movie were VERY good , but I’m struggling a bit with it. I almost put it down the first 50 pages because it had so many characters , and since the names are unusual names to what I’m used to seeing , it was a bit confusing to get them all straight. I’m now half way done , and it’s picking up a bit , but I’m just not seeing the pull to it and it’s not scary at all .

My question is, does it get better ? I just watched the previews for both versions of the film to pump myself up a bit more and get more atmosphere on the book . And talked to my brother who saw the movie (American version ) and said it was REALLY good . And my brother watches a lot of horror , he does the 30 in 30 days every October and he’s always watching all types of horror , so his opinion is valued .

My question is also , have you read this ? And what were your thoughts ? No spoilers please , as I do plan to finish , it’s just taking me a little longer than usual . Just got done reading “Suffer the Children “ which I really enjoyed and my first book by Ronald Malfi , Bone White , which I blew through because it was really good . So coming to this right after , it seems kind of slow .

Oh , I forgot , I also read Talia before this but I read that in a day and didn’t care for it too much . I like to throw some extreme horror into the mix to pallet cleanse between longer books . Let me know your thoughts !