“The Watchers” By A.M. Shine Review

This forest isn’t charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina’s is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams.

I need to say here that this book was pretty decent horror book. It was far from being the best horror book I’ve read in my time but it wasn’t the worst I’ve read either. 

The plot in this comic book is very intriguing and interesting. Which really made me give this book a lot of high expectations which this book didn’t live up to for the most part.

The main reason why this book didn’t live up to my expectations is because its too long. The plot this book has would have been so much better if it was shorten down to being a short story or 100 pages long book rather than being over 300 pages long. There isn’t a lot of action in this book because this book is filled with a lot of things which aren’t relevant to the main plot of this book. Which is the reason why I say that this book would have been so much better if it was 200 pages shorter and actually stuck with the main plot of this book rather than building 200 pages of nothing onto the plot. 

The beginning and the ending of this book was very good and I was very enjoying both of them. But the middle part of this book seemed like a huge stretching out the plot for as long as possible process which I felt as I was reading it. I personally think that this book was was too drawn out and very very overwritten which really have taken out the enjoyment and interested in me as I was reading this book.

I personally also liked a lot the use of the Irish mythology and the very creepy forest setting which I’m a huge fan of when it comes to the horror book genre. 

The characters in this book, are pretty decent in this book. We get a handful of characters in this book and I gotta admit that there weren’t the best I’ve seen in my time reading books. 

The characters in this book had a lot of premise to be very good characters, but the way the author presents them really misses the mark of what could have made them memorable and good characters in this book. Because the author chooses to focus on one character for the entire book which means we also get to know really well one of those characters.

The writing style in this book makes it feel like it was meant for YA readers because of how simple and easy the writing style is. I personally liked the writing style because I was able to read this book in one sitting because of how easy going the writing style was. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

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