I don't know what it is about this book but i just haven't been able to finish it, in fact i haven't been able to get past the first couple of chapters and i had such high hopes for this novel. I started reading this book a few weeks ago and didn't get too far, i gave up and tried again not long after whilst i was on the plane from Malta to Bristol and managed to get a couple of hours of reading time in and still it didn't stick with me.
The synopsis looks interesting and something that i would enjoy if i got through it all, but i didn't and i'm not going to try again. The main reason i don't like reading this novel is due to the way the speech is set up,
Example;
Instead of
"Hello little duck, how are you today?" Asked the boy, Peter Straub does it this way;
-Hello little duck, how are you today? Asked the boy.
Using - instead of using speech marks.
Something that i know doesn't take away from the story but has managed to annoy me enough to not read on, if you want a review of this book look elsewhere, if you want to find out what it's about check out Wikipedia.
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