The Night Strangers by Chris BohjalianMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
Bleah. For a so-called "ghost story," this was terribly boring. The writing is technically proficient, but the characters are two-dimensional placeholders, which makes for absolutely no tension in the scary plot developments. Those plot developments are telegraphed loudly in advance, and there's no leavening humor or humanity to make a reader care enough to be scared on behalf of any of the cardboard figures populating the novel. Throughout the read I was irritated by the use of second person singular for chapters involving the main character, then ticked when
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This is definitely not one of his better works. I have to admit that I wouldn't put it down because I wanted to know what happened but that's pretty much the only reason I read it.
ReplyDeleteThe ending pissed me off. I was hoping for more.