The October Society, Christopher Robertson 2/5 This was a rather confusing book for me… Not for the writing or storytelling part but for rating the book. It felt a little bit like a tug of war. I liked the fairytale-ish writing and storytelling of the first story, sometimes it felt rather tough to read through the book, motivation wise, and at times I thought about DNFing. While the format of a TV show was quite interesting, I expected to read scary, horror stories but instead they were more like stories you would, and easily could, tell children. Nonetheless, none of them were bad - don’t get me wrong. The group scenes, however, were partially really strange for me, with a lot of slang, which felt pretty cringey to read. For the most part the stories were very slow paced, sometimes fast(er), even too fast, paced for my taste (even for short stories). The most horror-ish story out of the six was the fourth, of which I enjoyed the twist at the end. Though, I felt like the messages/ads in between were interrupting my/the reading flow which lead me to skip them and, if, read them afterwards. All of this being said, strangely enough the stories kept me reading and I ended up finishing The October Society. I don’t know if it’s the twist at the end or the feeling I got from this book after finishing it but, oddly enough, I kept thinking that I want to read season two (the second book) as well…