Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: Majors’ Folly
AUTHOR: Edward Kendrick
PUBLISHER: Wilde City Press
LENGTH: 81 Pages
BLURB:
Thane Majors’ lover, Ian Philips, sees Majors’ Folly—the mansion Thane has inherited—as a ‘monstrosity’. Thane believes otherwise. To him it is fascinating, not monstrous. At least that’s what he hopes.
After the two learn of several disappearances from the Folly, they spot someone trying to break in and wonder if the person is responsible for the Folly’s troubles. Deciding they must find out exactly what is happening, the pair begin to delve into the house’s history to uncover the truth before they too disappear.
Will the arrival of two strange males offering their help to Thane and Ian lead to revelations about the disappearances… or to Thane and Ian’s untimely deaths?
REVIEW:
I really wanted to love this novella. It had a huge, perhaps haunted, mansion. It had mysterious disappearances. It had zombies and the undead. Instead I was kind of left feeling like I had read a script for a television show. All we needed was those “pesky kids and their dog” showing up in their van to unmask the villain.
The story was a light read without a lot of scary stuff getting in the way. I sometimes found myself annoyed at the characters, for example, when someone breaks a window to gain entrance to the mansion, all they do is cover the broken window up and don’t call the cops. Did I mention there had been a bunch of mysterious disappearances prior to this event? The undead gay lovers weren’t scary. I’m pretty sure if my great, great something uncle and his boyfriend showed up at my house, slightly tattered from being in the grave that I’d be freaking out, not just being blasé about it. When we finally meet the zombie he too isn’t very scary. There are references to sex, but it is more the old broadcast TV sort of sex…go into a room, fade to black…then they are walking out the room. The hotness factor of this book was pretty much zero.
I ended up at the end of the novella quite fast because of the light reading. I strongly feel this story should have been marketed as young adult instead of adult. I felt it had a lot of potential, but was overloaded with mundane details that didn’t keep you on the edge of your seat. It was also quite predictable.
I’ll be honest and admit that I liked it for what it was and I would recommend the book to anyone looking for young adult m/m fiction. It is an easy afternoon read. If you’re looking for edge of your seat scary, and some hotness factor, this book isn’t for you.
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