Hillary
Written on Nov 14, 2016
I requested this on NetGalley because I wanted a spooky read and this sounded like a spooky read. It was not. HOWEVER, it was a very thought provoking read. I learned that there is a genre called "religious horror." Who woulda thunk? Most religious people I know don't like horror of any kind. Tey seems to think being forced to endure this wretched life on earth is its specail form of hell. Just goes to show there is a market for anything.
So most of us think that hell is made up of fire and brimstone, but that is not the case with the short stories in this book. Instead, they come up with alternate versions of hell that is unsettling when I stop and think about it. Like in most people are told that they are in hell to learn a lesson then come to the realization that in all time NO ONE HAS MADE IT OUT. I know at first I was like yeah so? Then I got to thinking. What is one of the cruelest things ever? False hope. The second is dispair, and this book has both in spades. So while it is not scary per se it dose lend itself to that deeply unsettled feeling that is hard to shake off. As someone who was raised and later left the fundamentalist church behind I may just be hard to scare what with being told I was going to face hellfire and damnation on a weekly basis. If you lack that background then maybe this book would be scarier? I have no idea. If you lack that experience and read this book let me know ok?
This book is a collection of short stories. As with any short story collection, I liked some better than others. There were a couple that just confused me. Maybe I should have paid more attention in church growing up then maybe they would make more sense. Over all though I am passed with this book as it gave me a couple of new authours to check out.This review was originally posted on Adventures in Never Never Land