Greg Chism

One of my favorite authors, Delilah S. Dawson just doesn't disappoint.

Overall, a cozy horror romance that does read like a female Hannibal Lector story.

Pretty happy with this one.

Probably the first utterly disappointing book I read. Also uniquely one where the adaptation is phenomenally better.

I didn't need to read all the weird indigenous fetishization... Notably lazy writing at several parts. Just, wow.

Give the show a try. It solved literally everything I hated about the novel.

This being said, I do think it's important to read and recognize how older white male horror authors love to make women of color into a mix between sex symbols and shamans. Richard Matheson definitely did it, for instance.

Some positives for The Terror? Honestly, no, not from me.

Reading this as an academic who loved Dante's Inferno was a major letdown. Dark academia loves to take aim at academia as an "it's all bad actors" take, and this didn't feel different.

True, there are A LOT of bad actors, but it's mainly from complacency and the slow moving nature of academia.

The author is a PhD student, so I felt this was a mix of catharsis but romanticism... It could have really pushed some boundaries on academia being a hell of its own making, but the book being really her hell makes it too reductive.

My last gripe is that most of the world building was basically textbook explanations of things. This had the opportunity for a great "reality isn't what they teach you in school", but that's not really what we got here.

Just dissatisfied overall.

This was an interesting one. Definitely not for you if you fear hospitals.

Overall, I'll need to sit with this one more.