Kris Bertin
Autor de The Case of the Missing Men (Hobtown Mystery Stories)
Obras de Kris Bertin
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th century
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Canada
- Lugares de residencia
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Miembros
- 145
- Popularidad
- #142,479
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 10
- Idiomas
- 1
Partially it was because the artwork turned me off. I was doing okay until the scene where they see a character digging (or possibly burying) something in the dirt off the side of the road. Until that point the art had been defined, but not detailed. For some reason the artist decided to hone in on this one instance in such graphicness that I physically cringed away from the book.
From then on I continued on in morbid fascination tempered with a lot of confusion. The characters all seem to be "in the know" in a way that doesn't quite come across in the story. They go from scene to scene, "clue" to "clue" with a sort of manic need that I never felt. The GN is paying homage/taking inspiration from the old teen books/shows from yesteryears, but it had none of the charm of those stories.
It at times felt like it was maliciously mocking those stories - mocking the fact that these "meddling kids" would look into investigations that they had no business looking into yet come out of it pristine and heroic. The town itself was unsettling, which fits with the overall ghoulishness I suppose - the macabre nature of the deaths and disappearances seemed less important then keeping everything peaceful
In the end this book was extremely unsettling, but not in a good way.… (más)