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CREEPY GHOST SHIP BOOK

So far it's excellent, not a book you can inhale in one sitting. Extremely gruesome.

AHHHHHHHHHHHH
It's so GOOD

I'm listening to this as an audiobook and it's stressing me tf outtttttt

This book fucking rules

Idk man at this point I want to finish the book
The story is interesting, I like the premise and world building
The writing is fucking awful. Ten adjectives to describe one thing, lyrical prose bordering on purple. Huge swathes of the book dedicated to overly describing stuff.
There was one point where he's dreaming about a market and it's literally just a long list of colours. Vermilion, chartreuse, dandelion, UGH

This book is STRESSING me out, oh my god

I hate it when books try too hard to be poetic & "quotable". It feels too disingenuous. This book, however, had a couple of lines that have left me floored so far. I think bc it isn't trying to be some lyrical nonsense, so it hits harder.

"Come evening the sun burned like a pyre in the west, and soon after the stars would gather to mourn it's passing, glistening like tearful eyes, sometimes falling."

Damn dude this guy fucking sucks

The material is interesting, the writing style.. even more so. Took me a while to vibe with it because it's reads as so deeply unserious about pretty heavy subject matter. I feel like this book is for the true crime girlies because she writes so casually about horrific situations. Really reminds me of those sort of podcasts. I'm not loving it but the source material is interesting enough to keep reading for now.

You ever read a book and you can just tell that it was written by a man?

Literally every female character so far is introduced with some horniness by the writer/mc

It's still good so far tho, the breasted boobily shit is only a minor annoyance