A Review of “Whispers and Screams” cowritten by Kerri Lapierre
Whispers and Screams: 13 Chilling Stories That Will Haunt Your Dreams
Kerri Lapierre
This book really had the potential to be something good, but ultimately there needed to be a lot more editing done to this to make these truly ‘chilling’ stories. This is partly the reason I’m not a huge fan of titles that make a promise they can’t keep – they’re usually a huge let down.
There were some good ideas here, but they really needed more fleshing out. The stories all read too simply, even for the target audience. This is supposed to be YA, but it skews much younger, with simplistic prose and nothing too challenging or scary in the stories themselves. They’re very samey and fell very much like the kind of stories kids sit around telling each other in the dark.
This is also a very short book, at just 93 pages, so it wouldn’t be too much for a younger reader to tackle. But ultimately the length works to its detriment, as the stories quickly blur into one another.
There’s nothing unsalvageable here, but again, it required a deeper edit than what it ended up getting, and the stories become forgettable.
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Whispers-Screams-Chilling-Stories-Dreams/dp/B09CKF4X7D/
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Whispers-Screams-Chilling-Stories-Dreams-ebook/dp/B09CLLYDVN/
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Review by Elle Turpitt
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I received this ebook via NetGalley for review consideration.
