Review: One  star is enough
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2013
I'm giving "Cursed Casino" one star because there was some imagination needed to write this story and the plot did kind of make some sense and the grammar and style were reasonable.But that's it. I would have thought it was a "first try" at a horror book except this author seems to do alot of them. So I don't know, maybe I just didn't like this. I read a little of Cranson House (or whatever) by the same author and I thought that was much better (though I only read the sample). Anyhow, here are my issues: First the story is pretty silly: a storm destroys a casino full of slot addicts and the people within, but the ghosts of the dead remain dissatisfied (probably because they died before they could hit it big) and want someone to "witness" their tragic story. Along comes a guy and his high school buddies who get exclusive access to the casino on the eve of its reopening. Somehow I thought it was a big group but in the end it seems to be only 5? people who get to party in the fancy casino because one of them was in charge of the refurbishment. They are locked in for the night and cell phones don't work because we all know that is just common policy for all public buildings including casinos. And then the ghosts and demons and whatever start showing up once in a while to make the night exciting. Thankfully one of them  starts to figure out what the ghosts want (they want a refund and so do I-hahaha) so she is working to figure that out and end the curse or whatever while everyone else is drinking and partying. The characters are pretty shallow except maybe the heroine who isn't a party girl thank god because party girls can't solve mysteries. Anyhow, don't worry because things have a way of working out for the best and this story is all about feeling like thing happened for the best. Feel-good horror. The ending is unbelievable. Okay, I don't mean that I don't believe it, I mean it was unbelievably bad. Well, let me take some of that back, some people might really like the ending, but I think those are the people who don't really like the horror genre.