Jared
I really didn’t expect any of Triana’s books to be bad. but here we are.
I respect it for trying to do something different, but at the end of the day, it’s still a slasher, the one of, if not the, worst subgenre to come from horror.
Ex-Boogeyman acknowledges tropes and the worst of the genre, but doesn’t ever subvert them. Once Jonathan makes it to the rafting center, the rest of the book becomes unbearable slasherslop.
There are moments near the end where it toys with good ideas but it never fully dives into them. honestly, the book would have a lot more interesting if Jonathan never started killing people.
Triana is good at writing kids. There’s a 12 year old girl character here who felt real and reminded me of my sister. So good on that.
Idk you can skip this one. It’s incredibly lame and generic.
I really didn’t expect any of Triana’s books to be bad. but here we are.
I respect it for trying to do something different, but at the end of the day, it’s still a slasher, the one of, if not the, worst subgenre to come from horror.
Ex-Boogeyman acknowledges tropes and the worst of the genre, but doesn’t ever subvert them. Once Jonathan makes it to the rafting center, the rest of the book becomes unbearable slasherslop.
There are moments near the end where it toys with good ideas but it never fully dives into them. honestly, the book would have a lot more interesting if Jonathan never started killing people.
Triana is good at writing kids. There’s a 12 year old girl character here who felt real and reminded me of my sister. So good on that.
Idk you can skip this one. It’s incredibly lame and generic.