Title: Kill Creek
Author: Scott Thomas
Rating: B
Format Read: Paperback
Genre: Horror
Keywords: Hauntings, Authors, History
Kid Appropriate: Teens and older
A group of horror writers are invited to do exclusive interviews for a horror website. The interviews will take place in a creepy house on Halloween. Everyone thinks it's just a gimmick. Something to get views up. Something to increase sales. But Finch House is more than just a house.
I read this book for my long distance book club with my boyfriend and we both agreed that it was worthy of four stars. As a fan of the horror genre I did really enjoy seeing a lot of elements that I have come to love over the years: locked in mystery, a monster no one can see, hauntings, creepy old houses, gore, and a book about writers that while fictional mirror real life authors quite well.
My hopes were pretty high after an emotional first chapter. Thomas wrote the emotion and horror of the first tragedy to befall Finch House very well and I was drawn in instantly. This ability continues throughout most of the book with only snippets of action being shown at a time to drive up the anxiety and expectation of an unveiling.
Our characters mirror real life authors that I have read before and it was fun to tease out aspects of their lives that were similar as well as those that deviated. Our main character is Sam, a down on his luck writer experiencing the dreaded unending writers block. We see a good deal of his history and get hints of his inner demons nicely but this is sometimes lacking in our other author characters and they can feel a bit flat at times.
As far as the style of horror, this one is not downright scary. There were no crazy nightmares or sleeping with the lights on from this one. Nor was the gore particularly high. Anticipation and the tenseness that comes from it were more the style of this tale.
Where this one fell just shy of being truly great is that all of a sudden the story fizzles out and we are left with a wholly unsatisfying ending. Is it worth the read? Yes. Is is the best horror book ever? No, there are others that have a more consistent pacing and a satisfying ending.
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