Review: Terrible
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 10, 2013
I hate to criticize an author - especially an Indie - and I am truly sorry ...It was badly written, badly editted, and some stories just ended quite abruptly in a bad place. Bad. Bad. Bad. Some of the stories were so very boring - I couldn't read more than a few pages before giving up - with events jumping around hither & yon. Some characters were quite frankly ridiculous, their dialogue cheesy, with more cheese on top. Cheese-whizzy ...Okay, I had the impression I was getting a multiple book set from the picture of six or so books bound together, but that was clearly not that case. It was only one book (I think? Kind of hard to tell - though it may have all been just one big run-on story given the confusion going on it this ebook) with the remainder of the reading material appearing to be the beginning of other books ("bonus" material?) as teasers of a sort. The stories ended so abruptly that I had difficulty figuring out when one story ended and a new story had started (to enhance the confusion factor the name "Jake" appears in two different stories back-to-back. This greatly contributed to the uncertainty and mayhem of really knowing when one story was over and the next began).None of the "scary", "graphic violence" or "gross" promises delivered. I'm a big baby with slasher films, but I got nary a goosebump, nor lost a bit of sleep.However, I do recognize effort and time spent, and for that I salute it. It has a kernel of promise, and perhaps with some thoughtful rewriting, lots of editting (and a major overhaul?) it could be resurrected into some decent stories. A better name for it in it's present state though should just be: "Don't Read".Don't Read After Dark: Keep the lights on while reading these! (A McCray Horror Collection)