Cinema 7

​This novel was one of the books I chose to review from the Blackthorn Tour group.  This was a novel that I enjoyed reading.  This story is, in my opinion, a new take on typical paranormal activity mixed with the kind of slow but steady suspense that keeps you turning page after page.  There were a number of nights that stayed up way later than I should have just to keep reading.

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Author, Michael J. Moore

​There are a few instances where the author gets a little long-winded, very similar to the style of Stephen King in the novel IT.  There were more than just a couple of areas where the author repeats the same information multiple times, almost as if it were some sort of reminder or recap, which is fine but, not necessary.  
 
I also felt that the length of the novel was a little long for the actual story content it possesses.  I felt that there was a significant portion of the background and filler content that could have simply been omitted and the story would have been just as impactful, if not even more so.  Other parts of this kind of content could have been condensed to avoid repeating the information so much.  Plus, I found the characters a little, I don’t know, disjointed maybe.  They seemed hard to relate to a lot of the time.  Even though their personalities where well represented by their dialogue, the rest of the details about the characters seemed kind of faint and eventually seemed to get lost in the body of the plot.

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​All that being said, I did enjoy the story.  I found the descriptive and creative writing completely conveyed the shattering imagery that left vivid and often very eerie pictures in my mind as I read on.  This talent alone made the story worth reading.  However, I must say that for pure horror lovers I think this novel is a fifty-fifty shot as to whether it will be well received in that audience.  I think this would be more popular in the suspense/thriller drama type of genre.
 
RATINGS
3/5 Stars