This idea was a very good one. It involves breaking the “Fourth Wall“, which is the invisible wall that separates the audience and the characters they are watching.
I bought this book based on the author’s rep more than the idea behind it. It is a grand idea and the first line is tempting: Burn this book. What an opening! Then the following paragraph cinches the deal and gets out the wallet: Go on. Quickly, while there’s still time. Burn it. Don’t look at another word. Did you hear me? Not. One. More. Word.
My advice: Burn this book.
Read above.
I felt let down by Clive. I don’t think he can do horror anymore. Too much fantasy. Although the characters are drawn nicely, one still can’t feel for Mister B. Gone.
Where is the passion?
I’ve experienced many of Clive’s books, and I have always closed the back cover and sighed, saddened it has finished. Don’t get me wrong, the book is readable but the story just sucks. There’s little description, which may have been done on purpose. There is nothing keeping me to keep reading. What is the point? It is dull.
There is no build up and little suspense. There are however a few good scenes, that keep one reading. But there are over too fast and some make no sense either, like getting kissed and calling that a love affair.
The book seems to be a series of small events that Clive has tried to lock together into a book. Not worth $39.99 in today’s tough economic times. It is 248 pages of (often) double line spacing and 27 lines per page.
If you are a fiction writer, you know that is pretty much one MS page. This book could have been much shorter and saved a few more trees.
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