With all of Glory’s internal griping about how she’s the black sheep of the family and the outcast at school, I was half-expecting something Carrie-esque, especially with the whole date thing.  At least I got the blood making an appearance right.

Horror is very hard to write.  The foreshadowing has to be just enough that it’s only obvious after the fact.  Subtlety is key but this story just doesn’t have it.  It’s written like some cheesy horror movie would set up—way too much in your face "foreshadowing" to make anything later on in the story at all surprising.  It just becomes a matter of when it’s going to make a relevant appearance and how gory and disgusting it’s going to be.

There was way too much info-dumping at the beginning; rather long, rambling tangents of how horribly Glory was treated by her sister, her mother, how much of a recluse she was and, of course, the catalyst of the story, how much into "weird" things she was.  Honestly, I didn’t care.  I prefer subtlety in my horror and I like to be scared and surprised by what’s going to happen, not expect it and be relatively grossed out.  I don’t equate gore to something being scary.  Gore is just gross and it’s something I’m not afraid of.

The writing is pretty decent although at times it should be reigned in.  A few too many tangents and over-telling backstory but it’s definitely readable.  If the author were telling a different story, I’d definitely read it for the writing because, despite its flaws, I like how the author writes and I think she has great potential.

Some people like the cheesy type of horror.  I don’t.  I particularly find that magic as a means of evil is a bit overdone in the horror department, as are your standard demon-possessed corpses that do the evil-doer’s bidding.  I just wasn’t impressed with the premise and considering the hints were dropped like a barrage of atom bombs right from the beginning, the suspense was killed.  I can’t be afraid of something if I already know what’s going to pop out at me from around the corner.

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