Graham Downs reviewed Welcome to the Spookshow by Tim McGregor
Review of 'Welcome to the Spookshow' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
This is the second instalment in the Spookshow series by [a:Tim McGregor|648379|Tim McGregor|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1308702214p2/648379.jpg], but it's actually a prequel. And I have to say, it's MUCH scarier!
In it, our heroin, Billie Culpepper, first discovers her ability to see dead people, and it rocks her world. I guess, if you think about it, it's pretty standard horror faire, but there's just something authentic about how the author describes these terrifying apparitions, and how Billie reacts to them.
Billie's character is written well. She makes choices which are mostly believable and internally consistent. When her choices seem a little stupid, we understand why... WHY she goes down into the basement, for example, which is a common horror movie trope that viewers love to poke holes in.
What lets this book down is the editing. In the beginning of the book, it's pretty good - nary a typo to be seen. But as …
This is the second instalment in the Spookshow series by [a:Tim McGregor|648379|Tim McGregor|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1308702214p2/648379.jpg], but it's actually a prequel. And I have to say, it's MUCH scarier!
In it, our heroin, Billie Culpepper, first discovers her ability to see dead people, and it rocks her world. I guess, if you think about it, it's pretty standard horror faire, but there's just something authentic about how the author describes these terrifying apparitions, and how Billie reacts to them.
Billie's character is written well. She makes choices which are mostly believable and internally consistent. When her choices seem a little stupid, we understand why... WHY she goes down into the basement, for example, which is a common horror movie trope that viewers love to poke holes in.
What lets this book down is the editing. In the beginning of the book, it's pretty good - nary a typo to be seen. But as we get further into it, and particularly during the more intense and scary scenes, we start to see not only typos and spelling mistakes, but duplicate words, missing words, missing punctuation, and the like. Most of the time, I knew what the author meant to say, but it still ruined my immersion a bit when I had to re-read a sentence to figure it out.
It was almost as if the author got a little carried away at these times, and rushed through these scenes just to get them done.
Still, this book is much better than the first one. My only concern there, is that it's difficult to imagine the Billie Culpepper of [b:The Spookshow|23703741|The Spookshow|Tim McGregor|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1418039781s/23703741.jpg|43312977] coming out of the beautifully portrayed character described in this book!