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sofipitch's review
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
This book would make an excellent thriller horror movie. It defies expectations set up by the genre. The synopsis and begining makes it sound a LOT like Salem's Lot which was so boring I couldn't finish. But that was quickly not the case. A lot if the characters actually talk and share info with each other as they discover it AND believe one another, rare for horror. Also the book's last 200+ pages are "the final battle" which some books often hype up the finale battle or the threat so much that when you get there it feels like nothing (cough cough The Conjuring) but this book packs a punch. It reminds me a lot of Train to Busan in how action packed it is (and the vampires act a lot like zombies tbh) but also how you get attached to a lot of characters and so their deaths are pretty painful. While this book is not like the most literary and definetly "an action book" it inverts a lot of expectations and stereotypes found in the bestseller types. It has a really powerful theme of community and love imbedded in it too. I will be reading more by Massey
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Death, Blood, and Violence
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