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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retros_x" data-source="post: 9856980" data-attributes="member: 7033171">Yes I liked that aspect, how evil slowly enters a community, corrupting it. Works as a metaphor on many levels and the novel is not subtle about it. But I was more speaking about the dramatic pacing. Some of the scares and action in the beginning of the movie felt like entering a final phase - but than it didn't happen. I would've enjoyed the evidence of his evil to be more subtle in the beginning and not the main character being an eye witness so early in the novel. The whole beginning part with someone climbing on their roof, the granny telling the villains backstory, the ratswarm killing the granny brutally, the protagonist literally watching the villain suck the blood out of a child - these felt oddly placed in the book, these were scenes I would've place closer to the climax while many scenes later in the book I would've placed earlier (kids becoming lethartic and grumpy, moods of characters change etc.) . I don't have anything against the long time span, its more how the scares were placed and the weird episodic structure I didn't like that much.Also I only started to care about characters when something traumatic happened to them. Thats not a sign of good character writing. I can't put exactly my finger on it, but for example Stephen King manages to make me care about characters before they suffer (and a lot of non-horror authors manage to do it even easier complete without suffer). On the other hand I read it gets a TV adaption and I think this has potential. The novel structure is perfect for TV and when they expand on the community and characters this could turn out quite good.Hmm... In this book he doesn't seem quite mocking them, at least not the main character. But the characters feel satirical and exxagerated, maybe its that.</blockquote>

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