 Three two. Hello everybody. E here. Welcome back to another book review Today, I'm talking about an author that comes highly recommended. I say that but I I've tried him before and I have not liked him, but people keep saying try his new one Well, actually this was back when it was new. He's he has another collection out now. That's newer than this but Read out Neville try the redening If you didn't like the ritual, I love the movie didn't like the well I couldn't get through the book and from what I understand about the ending of the ritual. That's a good thing It was explained to me what happens at the end of the book and I just kind of laughed but Okay, so it didn't go well We're talking about the redening by Adam Neville. I'll throw up a whatever up here Um First first off first off I didn't want to read the book because I don't gel too much with his writing I think he's verbose for the sake of verbosity I don't think that all of all the words that he uses are needed And this is coming from a Stephen King fanboy who rarely says that he overwrites I think everything that King puts into a book needs to be there This not so much this this feels like a Barker's damn nation game in that there's a lot of stuff in here That could just be completely excised. It's just words. It's superfluous Words, that's the best way to put it and a lot of people a lot of times when people say the books overwritten by two Three hundred pages. They don't know why they're they're saying that they just feel like it went on too long There are whole chunks of this book where I was like that has absolutely no purpose Kept listening kept listening absolutely no purpose no purpose Even the world building he tends to repeat himself chapter after chapter. He tends to repeat descriptions not in the same words But he's already described that thing and he goes on to describe it again from another character's point of view But it's the exact same thing just in different words. It's not like the character the next character is having a different Experience than the other one. That's the next thing. I'll go to is the characters Absolutely hated the characters. I couldn't tell one apart from the other. I think one's name was cat and one name one's name was Helene Those two completely interchangeable. I I did I caught nothing now if there were things It's probably because the book bored me so badly That that I literally couldn't figure out who these two characters were The the next thing I'll say is the going back to the writing and the verbosity the The overwriting that's the pacing the pacing I didn't like the pacing at all I didn't like the the characters and the dread I just didn't feel a whole lot of dread Why because I felt like I read this before I hadn't read this before I saw this before this felt like much It felt like many scenes were taken whole hog from the movie the ritual now I didn't finish the book I gave up after 50 pages because like I said, I can't stand this dude's writing It's just not for me if you love it. That's fine. Go love it But it wasn't for me now So the characters the dread the pacing all that I'm giving this two stars the book itself the story itself We're gonna talk about the audiobook here in a second, but the book itself. I'm gonna give two stars. I'm not gonna Take away for the audiobook. I'm gonna talk about the audiobook as a separate entity But the book itself the story itself. I'm giving two stars. That's all I can give it That I would give it one but it is there there wasn't a whole lot of bad writing It's just too much of the same thing over and over again very little character development loads and loads of situational and descriptive Narration like this thing looks like this going on and on and on and on Okay, now, let me go to the audiobook The audiobook is one of the worst audiobook productions I have ever listened to in my life Period hands down for a book by a bigger named author This dude has a movie it has a movie out. He has a movie deal. So I'm calling him a bigger named author The production quality is utter ass you can literally hear clicking on the microphone You can hear where the narrator screws up and clicks his tongue to go back to find So he knows where the air was so he can delete that you hear these things That shouldn't be there and his pronunciation. Okay, first off. There are characters with accents sometimes Sometimes a character will have an accent sometimes a character won't have an accent The narrator is American or sounds American for a British book. This should have been done by a Brit It should have been I mean the hands down it should have been It happens across the pond the writing. It's very weird to hear things from, you know from Britain British English From an American voice. It's very weird. It's distracting But on top of that the narrator forgets Seemingly forgets that some of these characters are supposed to have accents at certain periods of time Now once again, if there was a reason for this, I don't know why but if there was a reason for this I completely missed it if there is Go ahead and tell me down there why they should have, you know, different accents at different times Sometimes they're American some the same character sometimes American sometimes British now but I think the biggest problem with this is the the pronunciation of certain words and You know, I have problems pronounce pronouncing things a lot of the time and it's it's an honest problem of mine I don't try to do it. It's just how how it comes out. I mispronounce things a lot of the time I probably have some form of speech impediment in that way, but I'm not an audiobook narrator. I don't in fact, I tell people I don't read in public I try not to read in public because I am so bad at it This author pronounced crescendo as crescendo I checked Google The pronunciation there I checked videos pronunciations and it was crescendo every single time both American and British English another one was ethereal. He pronounced it ethereal Which is a common common mistake, but this guy's a narrator. He's selling a product. He's Narrating a product for sale. I'm not selling these YouTube videos. So if I'm meant to pronounce something, it's whatever this guy is narrating a product for payment But I once again I checked do do Brits say ethereal ethereal they do not But again, he's American so he should be pronouncing pronouncing these things as an American Sorry as an American my throat's kind of scratchy today as an American, but he's not And that it really feels like he should have a British accent all the way through because there's plenty of Britishisms or whatever you want to call it. There's plenty of British English. This is written in that way But it's with an American accent. Excuse me Now I don't I don't know if that had any bearing on me liking the story or whatever I went back and I kind of analyzed it and I was like no because his narration didn't affect the the droning Narration the things being described eight different ways, but in the same way and I know that sounds odd, but literally what I mean is the The flower was blue The garden had blue flowers, you know, it's that kind of thing. You're saying the same thing just with different words There was a lot of that stuff Not specifically that line, but you get what I'm saying. So all in all I'm giving this book Two stars. It is easily one of the worst books. I've read this year in my opinion Most of my problems are subjective. So if you love Adam Neville, go love Adam Neville. That's fine Adam Neville If you watch this, I ain't got nothing against you man. I just don't like your writing That it's there's just something about this author's writing that it just feels Feels like he's trying too hard. I don't know how else to put it That's how it feels to me and to see him writing the way and to have actual Objective issues with it. Okay. He's already described this thing. He's describing it another way easily I could I could edit probably 50 pages out of this book I'm not gonna go a whole hog like most people you could get rid of 200 pages No, at least 50 pages could be removed from this book and it would not hurt this 50 pages of description at least could be removed from this The the several different ways that he put that did not he pronounced the song I'm still stuck on the narrative seven different ways He describes rocks It's it's just it was too much. I think there's a there's a happy medium somewhere between Verbosity and too little information sparse information and that that happy spot in the middle I think King does so well. I don't think Neville does well at all But definitely if you're into Clive Barker, this is overwritten like Clive Barker's novels not a short stories But definitely like his novels and I'm kind of afraid to read Neville short stories because the guy is so verbose But if his short stories are better than his he might be like Barker in that sense, too If his short stories are better go ahead and hype him up down there in the chat I don't care, but did you love the reddening by Adam Neville? Did you hate it either way? Let me know what you thought down there in the doobly-doo. Give me some descriptions Give me some examples of what you didn't like or what you absolutely loved so that we can have a discussion But until next time I have been E you've been you this has been another book audio book review I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye