Status Updates From The Marrow Eaters

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He had a normally pale face with the traditional freckles and blue eyes.

If this writing were any more generic it'd be branded Dollar General.

Squinting his eyes...as opposed to his--what? Asshole?

Also he wrote that twice on one page!

Ken found himself...
Ken began to...
Janet found herself...
Janet began to...
Joe found himself...
Joe began to...

Every other sentence starts like these examples. The first two books in this series were amazing, unexpected, and wonderfully written.

What the fuck happened with this one??!?!!?? If it weren't for the fact that these books were published in 1972, I'd believe they were written by AI 😭

Cite the third paragraph of page 99 as an example of how terrible the writing is.

A blonde woman on page 8 is now a dark haired woman on page 83. No mention of dying hair.

Epler dies on page 81 yet somehow is in the room talking with Yelavich and Fisher on page 89.

The scene Gropp meets the monster is tense and we'll written. Moore does a great job with horror and tension but fails at literally everything else.

What started as a fun, tense read had quickly devolved into the worst writing I've read since I stopped reading James Patterson.