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An Ill-Pleased Video Night

The ill-please video night by Adam Cesare was nearly a waste of time.

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An Ill-Pleased Video Night
Andrew R. McKinley

The great thing about opinions? Is that we all have one. And I sure have mine about the following book.

Video Night by Adam Cesare is an adept 80’s style horror where Billy Rile, the skilled video-gamer, and avid horror film junkie; has no idea that a grotesque alien life-form has infected his inconspicuous town. The alien overtakes and transforms its hosts. But when Bill’s weekly movie night plans are crashed by this infestation. It is up to his best friend and him along with their movie dates to summon the courage and call upon their horror movie knowledge if they are to survive.

I do not wish to ruin it for you as I do feel it is a good book, it just couldn’t keep my interest. So, if you’re worried about my review ruining it for you, I have written no major spoilers. Oh, and if you just bought it and have it sitting on your night as just before you caught glimpse of this article. Feel free to read it still and gain your own judgment on the story. Video Night by Adam Cesare, was welcomed into my home, the same way a lot of books are.

From a wonderfully cared for and delivered to my door brown box. But, it wasn’t long into reading it I soon became dissatisfied with the book. Four pages in, to be exact. I found myself holding an overly predictable horror story. A used again and again cliché of sorts. That I ended up putting down and walking away from it. No, don’t worry. I am not writing this review based on the first four pages. I did force myself to read, all 231 pages, it just took me a couple months to digest this overly repeated story.

Definitely a tribute to a 1980s era low budget film. After making my way through the story I felt as if I had just left the theater after an hour and thirty minutes of low-budget gore and general predictable-horror. Author Cesare did a good job of creating believable high school age characters during the 80’s decade; no doubt he was one of them who lived it.

The overall writing was very straightforward with no real complexities or twists to confuse the audience, and was generally great with minor errors throughout. But, the story. I just couldn’t bring myself to get past the story and it’s predictable, almost over-used concept of horror. No offense to author Adam Cesare, but I would give this book a 2.5 out of 5.

If you decided to look into this book on your own, you will see it has a review on Goodreads of 3.9 out of 5; Amazon have an average of 4.5 out of 5.

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