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A review by eggmeg
The Dinner Guest by B P Walter
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Okay so...I liked the general plot. And I did want to find out what happened. But there wasn't a whole lot else I did like.
- The writing itself felt very basic
- Most chapters were too short to be immersive
- The time jumps were all over the place, I struggled to keep up at times
- I hated literally all of the characters
- Felt like every chapter ended on a really mediocre cliffhanger or rhetorical question and it got SO annoying- imagine almost every chapter ending with a variation of 'and then something happened that would change everything forever...' and you'll get a good idea of what it was like
- Okay, there's drawing out a reveal for dramatic effect, and then there's just dragging and dragging it out until it gets boring
- It just kept building!! It's like the author was just trying to add as much drama as they could possibly fit in, and it did not work at all
- The 'reveal' was so predictable by the time it occurred because of just how certain characters were painted
- The writing itself felt very basic
- Most chapters were too short to be immersive
- The time jumps were all over the place, I struggled to keep up at times
- I hated literally all of the characters
- Felt like every chapter ended on a really mediocre cliffhanger or rhetorical question and it got SO annoying- imagine almost every chapter ending with a variation of 'and then something happened that would change everything forever...' and you'll get a good idea of what it was like
- Okay, there's drawing out a reveal for dramatic effect, and then there's just dragging and dragging it out until it gets boring
- It just kept building!! It's like the author was just trying to add as much drama as they could possibly fit in, and it did not work at all
- The 'reveal' was so predictable by the time it occurred because of just how certain characters were painted