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