A review by charlottekaas
The Light at the End by John Skipp

2.0

This may be the original splatterpunk novel, but it has been surpassed many a time in both splatter and punk. While I did find myself fairly entertained, The Light at the End isn't a very good book. The characters are all incredibly unlikeable, the women are mostly there to be desired by men and are most of the time rendered completely useless because of their emoootions. I was generally disinterested in the ending and who would live or die. And all the horror writer/filmmaker namedropping got boring quick.
But I did find it fascinating how the absolutely most horrific part of the story were the Holocaust flashbacks near the end, where they must have given up on coming up with anything actually terrifying themselves.