Reviews with content warning for Gore - Temporada de Caça

For a horror book, it took me an awfully long time to finish it. The thing is, I was about 35% into de book when I was first hooked. And then there were whole-ass chapters about stuff I didn’t care about up until 70% and the last bit was just too long.

I cannot say it enough times, the pacing wasn’t right for me; or maybe it was the writing style, which made me go back and check what the fuck I was reading because some sentences didn’t make all the sense in the world and digressing just distracted me; or maybe it was the fact that I didn’t care about the characters because their whole personalities seemed to be based off on being “Indian”; or maybe it was the non-structured switch in povs because the Elk’s version was awesome but it just changed too quickly to tell what was happening.

I didn’t have any expectations going in, so I’m not suuuuper disappointed. But I certainly need another horror book to clean out the bad aftertaste this one left.

Gorey descriptions were really cool tho, and the way characters turned on one another actually managed to creep me out, so kudos for that.

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clrouse's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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ysi06's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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ashcrash's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

sooooo fucked up in such a good way. the writing style is AMAZING and works so well in showing you who the characters are and where their heads are at, including and especially when those aren’t good places to be. i do think the last half dragged a bit which broke the tension a bit. overall really good at bottling that dread and helplessness and despair and rage that the characters are feeling and force feeding it to you. the thread of storytelling throughout is vvv reflective and chefs kiss

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