Even if I didn’t know beforehand I could’ve easily picked up that this was written by a man. It’s the way he talks about everything, how he narrated through the main character’s eye. Though I dnfed this it did help me to see what I like and don’t like in adult thriller/horror novels. The fact that this had nearly nothing of what I like – says a lot, I think. I have this author’s new arc as well so I hope it’s better.

The main character was an edgy cop and I watch a lot of crime shows – I watched a lot of CSI as a kid, rewatch the older seasons of Criminal Minds because I love them. So I understand the whole ‘edgy cop’ vibe that writers like to go for (even though it’s much overdone and therefore very stereotypical). Markert didn’t write it well. Tried too hard to make the Detective Mills edgy. I just skim read when he spoke about something that I knew would make him more edgy – because I didn’t care!

The other main character was a writer and I actually preferred when the chapter focused on Mills instead of the author. Nothing really wrong with how Ben Bookman was written, I just didn’t like him at all.

The horror aspect was okay – I didn’t understand any of it, unfortunately. The plot was very confusing and was another reason for me to dnf. Even when I skipped ahead and read around I still didn’t understand anything. Actually, in my opinion, it read like it went on downhill in terms of quality. I was sad because in the beginning it felt a bit like Sinister and I love that movie so I wanted to see that type of thing here.