Review: The-Old-One
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2014
This book was just...okay. The plot sounded interesting, but the way it was executed...was lacking. The protagonist, David, was as boring as the rest of the story, and even when he tried to save the day, he failed. Throughout this book it was the same thing: nothing lost, nothing gained. Actually, let me correct that--many things lost, nothing gained. Because most of the characters got killed and I don't care. When you get into a good book, you feel something for the characters. I didn't care about the characters. Scratch that, I couldn't. They were like cardboard cutouts.To add, the story at points was inconsistent. The "vines" were later mentioned as "tentacles" and the little first chapter...I don't know which character the author was describing. The writing style I find annoying, boring, and pretentious. And there's hyphens when there shouldn't be, like "red-flannel" and "middle-of-no-where" and "school-bus". There's plenty more of these misplaced hyphens--I counted 15+. I don't know which college this author went to, but it must not have been a good one, and the-hyphens-where-there-shouldn't-be-hyphens really rubbed me the wrong way, and left me questioning this author's intelligence. What also left me questioning was the last three chapters, which are short and ambiguous.Also, it's obvious this author has something of an obsession with the Pacific Northwest, from how dutifully he describes the setting, the only part about the book that had a bit of emotion.The writing wasn't exactly cliche, but it was boring, bland, and colorless. This story was so boring it made me fall asleep and wake up hating it with a bad taste in my mouth. I give this book two stars because the author attempted to be creative.I read a lot of horror, but this book wasn't scary. I don't know why, but this book just didn't do it for me. The saddest thing about this book was all the good reviews on it.I finished the book, and now I have a case of raging diarrhea from it.