Review by Laura Leigh
3 Stars – I’m not going to lie… I picked up this book after watching the Netflix series. I really liked the show but was a little confused on what all went on so I thought the book might help clear up some of my unanswered questions. Now that I am finished reading it though I am even more confused than ever.
Brian McGreevy wrote both the book... and the script for the television show. Unlike its HBO counterpart, True Blood, the Hemlock Groves TV series stayed pretty much on track with the book. There was even direct dialogue (quite a bit of it) in the book that was also in the TV show. I really did like this aspect of the book. What I liked even more though was that you heard every central characters inner dialogue. You learned more about their past, more about why they did the things that they did and who they are as a person. It really brought the story to life in a way that the television show couldn’t. Now for the characteristics I didn’t like about the book: CONFUSION! PLOT HOLES! DEAD END STORY LINES!
I have never seen so many drawn out and long winded sentences. McGreevy is one of those people that loves to learn new five-dollar words and then find any reason to use them in a sentence. Does he know he is doing this? Is he just a braggart? All of the above? I’ll go with the latter. Seriously though, the main two characters in the story are 17 year old boys… They wouldn’t talk this way. And I really hadn’t planned on pulling out my dictionary to read my gothic horror novel.
One of the major story lines in the book is around “Ouroboros”. I won’t give anything away by explaining what this is… not only because I don’t want to ruin the book for you but also because I am still not sure what exactly it is!!! It kept getting brought up by each of the characters and then at the end it is not explained how it even fit into the story. I am mad just thinking about it. Also, there is someone narrating the story, in first person perspective, but we never find out who this person is! I’m not sure how they know everything that everybody is doing but somehow they do. Maybe it’s God? I really think God would be embarrassed to even be mentioned in this story, let alone narrating it.
To sum up this review (I guess you could call it a rant!), if I had only read the book and not seen the show I would have only given it 1, maybe 2, stars. It gets an extra star because the show is entertaining and Bill Skarsgard is pretty excellent eye candy *wink wink*.
3 Stars – I’m not going to lie… I picked up this book after watching the Netflix series. I really liked the show but was a little confused on what all went on so I thought the book might help clear up some of my unanswered questions. Now that I am finished reading it though I am even more confused than ever.
Brian McGreevy wrote both the book... and the script for the television show. Unlike its HBO counterpart, True Blood, the Hemlock Groves TV series stayed pretty much on track with the book. There was even direct dialogue (quite a bit of it) in the book that was also in the TV show. I really did like this aspect of the book. What I liked even more though was that you heard every central characters inner dialogue. You learned more about their past, more about why they did the things that they did and who they are as a person. It really brought the story to life in a way that the television show couldn’t. Now for the characteristics I didn’t like about the book: CONFUSION! PLOT HOLES! DEAD END STORY LINES!
I have never seen so many drawn out and long winded sentences. McGreevy is one of those people that loves to learn new five-dollar words and then find any reason to use them in a sentence. Does he know he is doing this? Is he just a braggart? All of the above? I’ll go with the latter. Seriously though, the main two characters in the story are 17 year old boys… They wouldn’t talk this way. And I really hadn’t planned on pulling out my dictionary to read my gothic horror novel.
One of the major story lines in the book is around “Ouroboros”. I won’t give anything away by explaining what this is… not only because I don’t want to ruin the book for you but also because I am still not sure what exactly it is!!! It kept getting brought up by each of the characters and then at the end it is not explained how it even fit into the story. I am mad just thinking about it. Also, there is someone narrating the story, in first person perspective, but we never find out who this person is! I’m not sure how they know everything that everybody is doing but somehow they do. Maybe it’s God? I really think God would be embarrassed to even be mentioned in this story, let alone narrating it.
To sum up this review (I guess you could call it a rant!), if I had only read the book and not seen the show I would have only given it 1, maybe 2, stars. It gets an extra star because the show is entertaining and Bill Skarsgard is pretty excellent eye candy *wink wink*.
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