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Pros & Cons
Pros
The reddening" is a slow burn horror novel that picks up in the last few chapters. Once there is an encounter with the red, no one is safe.
Kat is a lifestyle journalist who lives near brickburgh, in devon. Helene is a single mother who is drawn to brickburgh to try to understand why her brother would take his own life. Both kat and helene are in collision with their personal past.
Adam nevill excels at characterization in each book he writes. Nevill knows how to immerse a reader with rounded, realistic people and a deep sense of place. L. James, arthur machen, l.
The reddening is a tale of oppression and desperation, of human depravity and evil, and also a fight for survival. Nevill has written has had me devouring the story from start to finish.
Cons
I couldn’t get invested in the characters much. I was left completely confused by the ending.
There are many references to ancient gods and something known as 'creel' but no supernatural entities of any kind actually appear. It is almost as if neville imagines that striking back at someone assaulting you will make you just as bad as them. A cu... Read More
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Quality
Rare for the quality of the writing and the effect of the horror it achieves
” with the reddening nevill definitely accomplishes his goal
I also found it quite wordy with a lot of pages going by filled with the characters’ thoughts and not a lot of plot advancement... Read More
The back half of the book is a combination of the gore and familial cultishness of “texas chainsaw massacre” with the spelunkin... Read More
Price
Nevill is a not only a great horror authors but a masterful writer
Packaging/appearance
It is two worlds that collide in the reddening touristic nonchalent coastlines beautiful beaches a place for the wealthy and th... Read More
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- This product had a total of 1,840 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 19 2023.
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But about 23 of the way in everything almost stopped
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I am still reading but the going is incredibly slow
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The first half of this book didn’t grip me
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For me it took far too long to get from the opening to the meat of the problem
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They’re fairly straightforward but a bit interesting
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Steve is just kind of annoying and i found it hard to understand why kat was with him
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We really know very little about helene beyond her relationship with her daughter valda
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The bad guys are also a bit onenote but to be fair given how depraved they are there isn’t a lot of room for nuance there
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