Meddling Kids

This book flung me around like the kids were flung around that island. The first 200 pages I wasn't really hooked. Then from Part 3 onwards I was hyped, I was starting to really feel the tense, macabre horror creeping out of the hills, yet I found myself struggling again near the end. I won't deny that the premise is genius, Scooby Doo meets Lovecraft (I didn't know how much I needed it). Yet there were too many moments of cringey dialogue and confusing syntax.

I noticed early on that some sentences were wrotelikethisandIdidntunderstandwhy until I sort of came to the conclusion that they weren't deliberate but perhaps editing mistakes. I also found myself struggling to read one part of the fight because one entire page (three paragraphs) were written without a single full stop. Never mind CO2 poisoning, I ran out of oxygen just trying to keep up.

I really wanted to give it four stars but I felt like there could have been more. The relationship between Andy and Kerri also felt very forced, unwanted even, I just wish there had been some moments that had been really revised and engrained better into the novel.