I was so looking forward to this and this has become another classic on the list that just didn't WOW me. I am so disappointed because there were some parts that I really liked and spooked me a little, but I made the mistake of listening to this on audio and the narrator was just garbage.
When we had the monster's POV about his time in the woods watching the family and helping them with fire wood, I had to increase the speed to 2.5 because the way the monster talked I couldn't listen to that for 7+ hours. I got the jist.
Also Victir was just a freaking cry baby who got scared and fainted way to much. He couldn't deal with his own creation and then he almost created a companion for his fear. I was confused as hell at the beginning because I couldn't figure out who the hell was writing the letters to his sister. I think the story would have been even better if the story that was being told and re-iterated to the sister was a made up fantasy by a mad man who killed his own family and blamed a reanimated monster.
My 14 year old daughter read this, not by audio book and she enjoyed it. She gave it a 4 out of 5 stars. I give it a 2 star rating and I think she was scandalized...lol.
Listening is a different experience from seeing the page. Also, I think we can't help but judge a work in part by what has happened in literature (and films, TV, et al) subsequently, which is unfair but inevitable.
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