Review: Some Good Stories, Some Not...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 16, 2011
This is a hard to book to review - some of the stories are really good: 'A Friend' in particular I really liked, as was 'Ready Or Not'.But others I didn't like too much. It seems to me what the author has tried to do is take 'classic' (some would say cliched) horror tropes and write a succinct, orginal version of them. Where she succeeds (the stories mentioned above, plus a few others) it works really well; but where she hasn't, the whole story just comes across as cliche: another story where someone is offered a deal from the Devil; another story which turns out to be told from the point of view of someone who's dead and doesn't realise... (I don't consider these *spoilers* as the twists are obvious from the first few lines).This isn't a bad book, it's written quite well, and I'd certainly give another of this author's books a go. But for me, it wasn't quite the full package.