A review by gbeezz
Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink

dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

The first part of the story is solid, it is mysterious and scary and believable. However, during the second and third part I started to realise why I stopped listening to the podcast as well. I think for me a part of it is that the mystery is too convoluted, it is too big of a plot and it just becomes unbelievable to me. It doesn't help that all the side-characters only stay in the story for a very short time and we only have Keisha to focus on, and again while I love her in the first part and in the podcast, she sort of feels less believable and human after part one, which is ironic
given that it is a story about humans becoming monsters
. There isn't really any space to care about the characters after the first part I think. 
The ending also felt a bit unsatisfactory;
it makes sense that evil was not defeated forever, but having Alice and Keisha just be unaware and them leaving all of that behind them to just live a regular life felt very unfinished to me. 
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