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The Mall Of Cthulhu (2008)

by Seamus Cooper(Favorite Author)

3.32 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1597801275 (ISBN13: 9781597801270)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Night Shade Books

review 1: 1/4 point: This is pretty good! The pacing is surprisingly fast. The characters are all interesting, and the protagonists very likable. This is possibly the best-structured prologue I've ever read - it's extremely, obviously, and immediately relevant to the story.As I saw in other reviews...the author seems obsessed with the characters urinating, and also the male lead masturbating. It's probably meant to be humor, but I guess it could be Author Appeal.The male lead is a bit of a Marty Stu, but it's forgivable for the genre...and necessary to win against Cthulhu anyway.The ending is a little rough and a little pat. It's clear that the author left themselves room for sequels...a little TOO clear. Also, tying up love interests for the protagonists is unneces... moresary.
review 2: I think it's safe to say that anyone who chuckles at the title will enjoy the book. An easy read, which gets right down to business--it assumes you've seen enough people slowly figuring out that supernatural forces really menace us that you don't need that part spelled out, and want to get straight to cultists, beheadings, vampire sororities, and loners investigating these evildoers by scarfing free Wi-Fi at local coffee shops. The constant Mall/Coffeeshop/Unnameable-Terror-from-Beyond juxtaposition provides most of the underlying humor, but there are a few pretty good jokes on top of that.A gnawing complaint though: For a book that takes as long to read as a watching a 2-hour TV pilot, is that sometimes it feels like it was a TV pilot, with the promise of future adventures a little too obviously built in. I'm still not sure if the R'lyeh were *intended* to sound like being trapped in a shopping mall, or if my dislike of shopping malls is that idiosyncratic. less

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