A review by digitalrob
The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Peter Clines, H.P. Lovecraft
3.0
"I'm not sure what I expected, but this wasn't it. This book is written to mimic the original as much as possible with the addition of the supernatural elements.
The original RC is one of the first classics I read on my own when I was a teen. I was introduced to it by the Classic Comic and quickly moved onto the novel. I didn't love it then, but I didn't hate it either. It wasn't a difficult read since I already knew the major plot points. I think if I read it now, I'd feel much the same, but times have changed and this novel seems like it plods forward at a glacial pace now.
Generally, the Lovecraft allusions are fairly subtle and unintrusive until the end, and I was going to rate this as two stars until I got to the last 10% of the novel, so I've decided that I wanted more intrusive, more overt Lovecraft integrated into this story."
The original RC is one of the first classics I read on my own when I was a teen. I was introduced to it by the Classic Comic and quickly moved onto the novel. I didn't love it then, but I didn't hate it either. It wasn't a difficult read since I already knew the major plot points. I think if I read it now, I'd feel much the same, but times have changed and this novel seems like it plods forward at a glacial pace now.
Generally, the Lovecraft allusions are fairly subtle and unintrusive until the end, and I was going to rate this as two stars until I got to the last 10% of the novel, so I've decided that I wanted more intrusive, more overt Lovecraft integrated into this story."