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[jasmine_koran]

This is, hands down, angriest review I have ever done, of one of the worst, most idiotic, poorly written, misogynist excuses for a horror novel I have ever had the displeasure of reading. This fucking thing won the STOKER, people, and reviewers are lauding it everywhere. Well, I'm not. I'm so fucking enraged about its mere existence, let alone

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[maladaptive]

I think, were I more award-minded, I should switch to writing horror because goddamn this is the shit that wins awards? I've read better creepypasta. Why bother competing with the (mostly) good competition for the Hugos?

No, I know horror has lots of awesome writers and really bad writers win awards all the time. Just. Geesh. I don't think I've seen writing as bad as that prologue in any nominee ever, and even the bad books tend to be written well in terms of mechanics.

Also, one of the reasons my dad stopped reading so much horror was all the rape. My dad, who is a good man but not really what I'd call an actively feminist sort. Of course his breaking point was a book that promised supernatural horror/possession and was instead about some rapist demon and of course the story is from the POV of the man turned into the rapist--and some of the things he described to me were straight out of hentai, so while he's furrowing his brow all "wtf did I just read" I was like "oooooh someone found /d/ and put it in a book."

[deadsong]

...now I have to read this, just after reading that review. It sounds like everything I hate about fiction written to pander to the heterosexual white male ego, and sometimes I love reading books just to hate them.