So in the 1990s, a team of para-psychiatrists is sent in to investigate the various mysteries surrounding the Church and its unsavoury legends. From the start, they begin to discover a paranormal world that defies belief. But as they dig deeper, not only do they uncover some of the secrets behind the ancient edifice designed by “Zombie King” Thomas Moreby but, hidden away beneath everything else, something so ancient and so terrifying that it is using the architect himself as a conduit to unimaginable evil.
After four days and nights, not everybody survives—and those that do will come to wish they hadn’t. Imagine The Haunting of Hill House, The Amityville Horror, The Entity and The Stone Tape rolled together into the very fabric of a single building. And then imagine if all that horror is accidentally released . . ."
Title: The Lovecraft Squard: All Hallows Horror
Author: John Llewellyn Probert, (Created by) Stephen Jones
Genre: Horror
Publish Date: March 7th, 2017
Rating: 3 out of 5
Fave Character: Thomas Moreby
Least Fave Character: Karen
Where to read: At night in the dark
Hello Fellow
Readers,
Is it weird that I
am ending February, the unofficial love month, with a horror book? In my
opinion it seemed like the perfect way to round out my reviews.
So folks, I really,
really, really wanted to love this book, especially since I am a big fan of
Lovecraft and his universe. At the risk of sounding like a total dweeb
(although I may have already failed because who says dweeb nowadays?) I even
played the Call of Cthulhu table top game because I love Lovecraft horror so
much. The beginning of the book shows two teenage boys breaking into a
construction site, H.G. Wells old home to find some treasure. My mind played it
out like a movie and I loved that, Probert has such an amazing way with words
and horror writing in general that when those creepy parts came up I actually
cringed at it as if I was seeing it in real life. While this book did not give
me nightmares (that would take a lot to do), anyone who was not used to horror
genre may have trouble.
The beginning of the
book had such great pacing, it seemed as if things would settle down, then it
would come back, settle down again and take you for another ride. The story
itself was great, the setup, the backstory, the creepiness of the church. I loved
that he used characters I knew of to set the history. I even recommended that
my husband read it and I don't ever do that. The newspaper articles, the
scribbled notes, the transcripts from news shows added major depth to a already
great written book.
While I loved the
story, and Probert's writing, his characters just didn't do it for me. When the
story would turn it's focus to a character I hated it. I didn't like anyone of
them. Honestly if they all died I think it would have made the story for me. Karen
and Chambers the two main characters annoyed the hell out of me, their emerging
romance, their dialogue, Their actions just made me scoff as well as want to
just skip pages. I couldn't connect to them in anyway that made me root for
them. I really wanted to like Chambers considering he is a forensic pathologist
a field I want to get into, but I just still couldn't like him.
Anything thing that
bothered me was even though this book is the first in it's series I felt as if
I was missing a book, as if this was not the first but the second in a ongoing
series. The characters would mention a person or a event that had occurred and
I wondered if I have accidentally skipped something, I even made a search just to
double check that this was the first book. It didn't give me the setup or
backstory I needed, maybe that's why I couldn't connect to the characters
because I felt like I was missing something.
*Thanks to Netgalley for letting me read the book in exchange for a honest review*
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