Slender Man

by

Published Sept. 20, 2018 by HarperFiction.

ISBN:
9780008174064

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2 stars (1 review)

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Review of 'Slender Man' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

2.5 I think?

It had it's moments I guess, but it was so incredibly slow to get going and the main character was kind of annoying so it all felt like it dragged. I never skim fiction, but some sections were just boring so I did. I dunno... it's a cool idea, but I think it just needed like a bit of tweaking and could have done with a twist or two just to make things more interesting and even perhaps scary?

I'm a terrible gauge for what's scary because I find virtually no horror scary, but this one definitely was quite far off for me. It just took so long despite how short the book is to get to anything interesting and didn't use that time to effectively build the stakes. Instead it felt like 200 pages of setup and 130 pages of proper horror out of nowhere.

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