Bad Creek

Bad Creek

Hardcover
3.03

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Beschreibung

Iris, Gum and Aidan are holidaying in Bad Creek, just like every summer. Except Iris's older sister, Glory, drowned in the lake last year, and Iris can't seem to move on; Gum is hiding his sexuality from his family while being viciously haunted by Glory's rotting ghost; and Aidan is distraught over a drunken argument with Glory that he fears may have led to her death. When Iris sleepwalks to the dilapidated house that Glory obsessively sketched in her final days, she and the boys begin to uncover a sinister history in the very bones of the town. The trio must reckon with the events of last summer and uncover what lurks within Bad Creek before it takes Iris's life next.Gripping and vengeful, Bad Creek confronts the intersection of religion, sexuality, and feminism, and forces readers to reckon with monsters in all their forms-human included.

Buchinformationen

Haupt-Genre
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Sub-Genre
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Format
Hardcover
Seitenzahl
384
Preis
18.00 €

Beiträge

2
Alle
3

Murder. Paranormal. Cult. Upon finding out it's YA, I was a little sceptical at first… I haven't had very good experiences with YA thriller/mystery/horror books, but to my surprise I enjoyed this one quite a lot! The ending especially was beautifully written, cinematic almost. The only thing which bugs me are missing words, which sadly is a regular occurrence. Most of them are to/a/the, but sometimes it's a word that’s more important to the sentence as well… This dragged down my reading experience a little bit. An attentive proof read would've been good.

2

Somehow, it really bored me to death…

Sure, the basic idea sounded pretty exciting at first, and there were a few nice ghost and mystery moments. But overall, the story dragged on like chewing gum and barely got anywhere. Instead of the main plot about the mysterious death picking up real momentum, the story seemed to drift into a thousand side paths and unnecessary side quests: religious debates, family dramas, identity crises, even more parental stuff… all meant to be important, I guess, but for me, it completely blurred the focus. I actually wanted a creepy, thriller-like audiobook, but I got more of a mix of everything, and none of it was really satisfying. The actual main story got completely pushed to the background and was sometimes replaced by stuff that just felt like filler. ‼️ Personal opinion, you might feel totally differently 🌸

Somehow, it really bored me to death…
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