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End of book. The last half was so good! I did cry a bit at pete’s death and was shocked at the violent ending. But i’m glad that pontiac, her dad, and mrs. ward survived. The monster was depicted very differently at the end but i dont think it was bad. A lot of strings tied but and crossed pretty well at the end which I enjoyed. It was a good final half i’d say.

End chpt 47. The last half of the book is significantly better than the first. I feel like the characters are finally real. I believe this is the half written by the second author because it feels a lot different, but much better writting. I love the chapters with pete, mrs. ward, and pat (city detective). Showed a lot of emotion and character change and laid down the reasons for future reconnings.

End chpt 42. I actually like the last few chapters with pontiac, her father, and his mother reuniting in a FL trailer park. It was sweet family caring, despite his alcohol withdraws. Theres a certain homie feeling in trailer parks thats rough but sweet and these chapters captured that a lot, reminded me of my own sweet childhood memories. I liked this section a lot

End of part one. This book is weird which keeps my interest. It’s like nothing is happened while everything is happening. Nothing that happens seems like it should be and just feels thrown in for the sake of it. I still like doc and mrs wards characters though.

End chpt 29. I hated this entire last chapter. This interaction seems very unnatural between pontiac and doc. Also random zombie is introduced for no reason at all? This whole interaction seems forced. And why did pontiac fall out of friendship with saphir? I don’t think that was explained at all, they seemed fine? Doc is an interesting character himself but i dislike the way this is all written.

End chpt 26. The swamp monster is honestly terrifying. Its the only great thing about the book, the descriptions of how the monster kills. Its truly awful. But every thing else if fairly mundane. It takes a long time to get anywhere with these characters because most of the chapters are just describing bits of the characters day to day life. I also found more spelling errors and editing mistakes. Not a great look

Start of chpt 17 found first proof of poor editing. Words that should have been deleted were left in making for poor sentence structure that makes no sense.

I feel like there is something missing to this book that makes me not connect with it. Pontiac having a sudden mood change while fishing with Saphir came put of no where and was confusing. Some of the characters seem to move and talk like robots doing something they have to and not like fleshed out characters acting in their own right. Im not sure how much I enjoy this writing style.

A swamp demon is waking up and seeking retribution. Introduction to the deputies and little girl protagonist Pontiac. Book starts out very violent, first child murdered by the creature. I don’t know that I enjoy knowing the monster so quickly in the book, doesn’t leave any suspense or wonder. Some sentence structure is hard to read (this is separate from the accent it almost seems like it was edited badly)