A review by biancarosesmith
Dire Branches by Brian Fatah Steele
2.0
I’m afraid this ended up becoming a bit too weird for my liking. I was excited about the premise - Baba Yaga and a group of teens on a boozy weekend in the Appalachian Mountains? Yes please! Unfortunately it wasn’t executed in a way that I enjoyed.
The beginning of the book was promising and engaging. I flew through and enjoyed the introduction of the setting and characters. It felt like a great set up for an epic read. Then when the cosmic horror elements came in it felt like everything slid into way too weird land. I enjoy cosmic horror but this was too strange for my standards and felt jumbled. Things didn’t seem to make sense which for me still need to even in a cosmic horror story. I just couldn’t buy into it.
This wasn’t for me but maybe it will be for you.
The beginning of the book was promising and engaging. I flew through and enjoyed the introduction of the setting and characters. It felt like a great set up for an epic read. Then when the cosmic horror elements came in it felt like everything slid into way too weird land. I enjoy cosmic horror but this was too strange for my standards and felt jumbled. Things didn’t seem to make sense which for me still need to even in a cosmic horror story. I just couldn’t buy into it.
This wasn’t for me but maybe it will be for you.