My sister bought me this book as an early Christmas gift so I decided to give it a read since it looked to be only 200 pages long. I tend to go into books from the 2000s and after with a bit of a sense of dread because of how, uh, "hollywood-ified" they tend to be. In other words, if a book from the 2000s and after is really out-there and different, there's a slight chance I might like it, otherwise I most likely will not enjoy what I'm going to read. Fortunately, this book is kind of brilliant, serving as a parody of your average horror novel by telling an incredibly dull tale of... exactly what this book's name would tell you it's about. This book is really good at keeping you on edge, especially considering 99% of it is just the characters doing incredibly boring tasks while making the slowest amount of progress they possibly can towards further uncovering the mystery. It's a really great satire- you find yourself sucked into the mystery despite how unsatisfying and dry the whole thing is. It feels like you're reading the Nate the Snake joke for the first time.
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