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A review by starlight_soup
Creep by Eireann Corrigan
2.0
I was fairly excited for this book. A mystery about highschoolers that isn't about a dead best friend? Possible spooky house lore? Intrigue about a broken family's mysterious past? That sounds rad!
But as I kept reading, waiting for more hints to drop and pieces to come together, I slowly had to accept that they weren't coming. Only about one-third of the chapters included any clues at all and very few of the clues were actually important. Instead of house lore, we got a boring "twist" that lead to a climax that could have been very scary but had zero energy. We could have had some dark family secrets, but instead we got some stupid story that tried to make us sympathize with the love interest. Speaking of, why is there a love interest? Why?
Whatever. This book had a nice plot idea, a bad way of executing that plot idea, and a just-okay everything else.
But as I kept reading, waiting for more hints to drop and pieces to come together, I slowly had to accept that they weren't coming. Only about one-third of the chapters included any clues at all and very few of the clues were actually important. Instead of house lore, we got a boring "twist" that lead to a climax that could have been very scary but had zero energy. We could have had some dark family secrets, but instead we got some stupid story that tried to make us sympathize with the love interest. Speaking of, why is there a love interest? Why?
Whatever. This book had a nice plot idea, a bad way of executing that plot idea, and a just-okay everything else.