Review: Savagely Painful.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2014
I didn't like my first Fry book (Conjure House) but thought I would give this one a try, as after all, everyone has off days. I was hopeful and the write up sounded interesting, the book however failed to materialize something that I enjoyed reading.The premise is recycled, running out of gas on an unknown road, ending up in a weird village where things aren't as they should be. It could have made for a good, if predictable scary story but it seems to have been lost in translation. I agree with Mommacat that this book was loaded with words, however not as many useful ones as I would have liked. People throw out the words "psychological thriller" but just because someone has a degree in psychology does not make them interesting or make their books thrilling. So far I would say that we need less teaching and more solid writing.