Elska Bee reviewed Slender Man by NILL
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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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.
Also, very minor spoiler: the ending? disappointing. Considering it's 'found footage' style there could have been a great epilogue, but the opportunity was wasted imo. Also I just gotta say it, hated the newspaper articles. They were so unrealistic to me and the most poorly written aspect that it was distracting. The reddit posts were somewhat better but also really distracting how they were formatted wrong? Like nearly every comment had 0 points? It felt like they just forgot to change the default before printing lol