‘Land of Bones’ by Glenn Rolfe
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3/5
Finished on February 19, 2019
FREE with Kindle Unlimited | $2.99 on Kindle | $8.99 in Paperback
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Demon lights, granted wishes, strange things, and brutal love at the Lucky Lounge Motel. A haunted sister, desperate parents, a little human touch, and the end of the world…
These are the stories whispered among dead leaves, the script etched bare for all to see. When the chills sink deep and your heart begins to pound…are you alone?
MY REVIEW:
This collection contains the following stories:
“The Land of Bones”
“Ghosts of Spears Corner”
“Simon”
“Not Kansas Anymore”
“Fire”
“Wish”
“The Fixer”
“The Rooster”
“Too Much of a Dead Thing”
“Little Bunny”
“Death Lights”
‘Land of Bones’ contains fourteen stories about ghosts, monsters, vampires and more. The last story is more of a novella. It rounds out the collection.
I wanted to like these stories. Many of them have good bones, but they are so poorly edited, it severely detracts from what could have been. They aren’t particularly scary. They’re more creepy and disturbing than anything. Had they been more frightening — more gripping — I think I might have been able to get past the lousy editing.
I can typically overlook little errors (the occasional typo, a missing word that’s easy to ignore), but there were too many in this book to overlook them. Not only were there typos and grammar faux-pas, there were also several times in which characters were misnamed. I think another good round of edits could have saved most of these stories.
This was the first work I’ve read from Rolfe. I think his work has a lot of potential, but I don’t know if I will pick up any more of it in the future.
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