(I received this book for free as part of Goodreads First Reads giveaways).
(This review may contain spoilers).
The fact that I like horror movies is something that most people who know me are aware of. Someone from my church recently told me that he’d been told I only drank Diet Coke… and that I like horror movies.
I always find the genre of slasher horror to be interesting. I think it’s fascinating to see the kinds of things people will do in order to survive. I have to say, though, that I think sustaining that level of horror throughout the course of a novel is probably very difficult.
This book was fairly short, so I felt it worked really well. The characters were interesting and Chris especially wasn’t really obvious in his motivations. There were some moments in the book that really creeped me out and even though I would have liked a bit more explanation for certain things, I felt a lot of it did make sense… and it didn’t have much of an open end.
I could see a lot of the events happening in my mind and cringed along with some of the descriptions. There were a number of things I didn’t expect in the book and I felt that, although there wasn’t much of a mystery, it was still really interesting.
The Welsh phrases and words worked well, but the footnotes were a bit distracting. I kept having to break the flow of the narrative to check the translations. Apart from that, though, I felt this book was interesting and it was cool that the island was actually a real place. I would like to see something about the aftermath of what happened there.
I’d probably read other books by this author at some point in the future. If you like horror books, this is a quick, entertaining read.
Ink of Blood 