enne📚 reviewed Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes
Cold Eternity
3 stars
I hate to review a book by comparing one book to the previous by the author, but I enjoyed this horror novel a good bit less than I enjoyed Ghost Station and I'm trying to pick apart why. Like Ghost Station, I really appreciated the way this book slowly reveals character backstory while what the protagonist is running away from catches up with her, both thematically and literally.
The initial pacing slowly ratcheted up the tension via mysteries, dreams (or was it?), and "jokes". However, after the moment when everything comes mask off, I felt that the tension disappeared (even in the moment it should have been the opposite) and then it ended a little too abruptly for me.
It's a mix of ages, genders, gender identities, and ethnicities.
incredibly minor pet peeve from a one-off line: differentiating "gender" and "gender identity"
I hate to review a book by comparing one book to the previous by the author, but I enjoyed this horror novel a good bit less than I enjoyed Ghost Station and I'm trying to pick apart why. Like Ghost Station, I really appreciated the way this book slowly reveals character backstory while what the protagonist is running away from catches up with her, both thematically and literally.
The initial pacing slowly ratcheted up the tension via mysteries, dreams (or was it?), and "jokes". However, after the moment when everything comes mask off, I felt that the tension disappeared (even in the moment it should have been the opposite) and then it ended a little too abruptly for me.
It's a mix of ages, genders, gender identities, and ethnicities.
incredibly minor pet peeve from a one-off line: differentiating "gender" and "gender identity"
