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A review by adamsfall
Haven by Tom Deady
3.0
This book kicked off my spooky season reading alongside titles such as: the Cormorant, Cold Moon Over Babylon, My Heart Is A Chainsaw, and The Haunting of Hill House.
While taking great influence from great novels of the past (mainly IT), this book offered a fun and hate-able cast of characters. No scenes ever felt drawn out as the book was split into over 100 miniature chapters, but there were at least a dozen or more that seemed unnecessary or repetitive to the overall plot and character building.
As a whole, Haven was a perfectly capable novel of horror and dread.
I was on the fence on rating it as low as I did, but the length did take away from my overall enjoyment as I feel that the second act drug on and suffered some retreading.
Haven is a novel that is obvious to see the love behind and the long journey it took from inception to the finished product. I would be interested to see if a more succinct and edited version with a wider release would solidify it as one of histories horror greats.
3/5 but a 5/5 in terms of a recommendation in checking out!
While taking great influence from great novels of the past (mainly IT), this book offered a fun and hate-able cast of characters. No scenes ever felt drawn out as the book was split into over 100 miniature chapters, but there were at least a dozen or more that seemed unnecessary or repetitive to the overall plot and character building.
As a whole, Haven was a perfectly capable novel of horror and dread.
I was on the fence on rating it as low as I did, but the length did take away from my overall enjoyment as I feel that the second act drug on and suffered some retreading.
Haven is a novel that is obvious to see the love behind and the long journey it took from inception to the finished product. I would be interested to see if a more succinct and edited version with a wider release would solidify it as one of histories horror greats.
3/5 but a 5/5 in terms of a recommendation in checking out!