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Dead Eleven

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Dead Eleven

Auteur(s): Jimmy Juliano
Narrateur(s): Lee Osorio, Tanis Parenteau, Annie Q, Shawn K. Jain, Cindy Piller, Tim Lounibos
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"An ominously slow burn...Keep the lights on for this one."—A PEOPLE MUST-READ FOR SUMMER
"Very creepy...you've been warned."—R.L. STINE
"Gripping.”—ANA REYES

On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to learn the truth about her son’s death—but finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the bizarrely insular community and their complicated rules…

Clifford Island. When Willow Stone finds these words written on the floor of her deceased son’s bedroom, she’s perplexed. She’s never heard of it before, but soon learns it’s a tiny island off Wisconsin’s Door County peninsula, 200 miles from Willow’s home. Why would her son write this on his floor? Determined to find answers, Willow sets out for the island.

After a few days on Clifford, Willow realizes: This place is not normal. Everyone seems to be stuck in a particular day in 1994: They wear outdated clothing, avoid modern technology, and, perhaps most mystifyingly, watch the OJ Simpson car chase every evening. When she asks questions, people are evasive, but she learns one thing: Close your curtains at night.

High schooler Lily Becker has lived on Clifford her entire life, and she is sick of the island’s twisted mythology and adhering to the rules. She’s been to the mainland, and everyone is normal there, so why is Clifford so weird? Lily is determined to prove that the islanders’ beliefs are a sham. But are they?

Five weeks after Willow arrives on the island, she disappears. Willow’s brother, Harper, comes to Clifford searching for his sister, and when he learns the truth—that this island is far more sinister than anyone could have imagined—he is determined to blow the whole thing open.

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It was a slow start but halfway through the creepiness ramped up. It’s not a slasher horror type story which I prefer. The mixed media - letters, tape recoding transcripts, and texts - were cool like hearing g a true crime podcast. I suggest listening with a physical copy to fully enjoy this style of storytelling.

More creepy than horror - and that is fine with me

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The author seems to have written himself into a corner and just gave up. The open ending felt less deep and more lazy. The central problem of the story never felt unsolvable, so when it WAS, it was a let down.
I think my problem was, the concept seemed so interesting and so mysterious, but it ended up being really kind of boring.
Awesome cover, though.

disappointing

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Mash together The Village Midnight Mass, and IT, sprinkle in a dash of Pet Semetary, half-bake it and fill in cracks with The Cabin in the Woods. If you then package it as a Hunt-a-Killer 6-part game package and make it sound like it was written by a 16-year-old, voilà! You get this hackneyed, ponderous, 30-chapter-too-long… thing. It is like a crummy, home-made Father’s Day dog’s breakfast for Stephen King.

Not a bad story, per se, just one that has already been told dozens of times, better.
Like, I like the idea (obviously— that’s how I recognized all the literary Frankensteining), and the monster is kinda neat (with a cool name), but it is just so… bleh. Like, just kinda… dumb. It takes forever to get anywhere good, repeats itself like a Rocket Robin Hood episode… if one more person’s imagination “runs away with them,” I swear ta god…

I will admit I should have known— the lame rock music opener was the first warning, and I REALLY should have just shut it down after the prologue where the author makes all his excuses for why the writing is so garbage. Like is it a first person POV or a Dracula-like “found footage” novel or a 3rd person omnipotent POV? Pick a lane, man! If you choose all of them, it just fails.

Only because I need closure did I finish— otherwise, I wouldn’t have. God knows I didn’t care about any of the characters. I ended up full- on skipping chunks of chapters and then handfuls of whole chapters at a time to just get it over with.

The performance(s) are… very menh. Sometimes the narrator seems to forget which voice he is supposed to be doing and so you get weird “bleed” from narration to speech to character change, which is annoying.

I rolled my eyes way too many times to find this book anything beyond annoying and forgettable.

If you have seen/read any of the things I mentioned, save yourself the hours it’ll take to stomp all over them and skip this rip-off.

If you like horror, skip this made for tv re-run

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