Title: Bland storytelling told blandly
Product review: I wish I would've read the reviews before I bought this waste of paper. It is true that the opening sequence with its vivid description of blood-soaked mayhem does get your attention. But after that Rollo kicks it into neutral and idles along at a mind-numbing pace for 300-plus pages. It's sentence after sentence of boring explanation of what is happening to the boring characters. I really wanted this to be a good read, but instead it turned out to be a good example of how not to write a horror novel. Avoid this unless you're an English teacher wanting to show you students how easy it is to get the craft of storytelling wrong. And I would compare it Stephen King's IT in the way you could compare a fresh bouquet of fragrant roses to a torn black and white picture of wilted daisies: Yep, they're both flowers but that's all they've got in common.
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