Review: Adequate But Predictable
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2014
2 AND 1/2 STARSToby Tate, author of Lilith, returns with a novella about a cursed prayer rug that has all the elements of a classic, but without adding anything new to the "cursed object" premise, manages for me, to come up short.  Solid writing, characters, and dialogue, the tale is smooth and quick to read, if sometimes painfully predictable.  But in the same way the Tales From The Crypt were predictable, you still want to stick around to view the carnage.Daniel's short journey to discover the history of the prayer rug felt way too easy and convenient, but I suppose it had to be to fit into the novella format.  Once the pattern of deaths begin to unfold, the story seems to write itself and unfortunately, concludes as one would expect.  Not a bad read, but veteran horror aficionados will find it a bit pedestrian.