This was not at all what I thought I was going to get. I thought I was going to get cave dwelling monsters. What I got instead was a demon's withered physical body.

Maybe it was my fault that I was so blindsided by what this book was actually about. Maybe I should have read the one-line reviews on the book instead of just the little synopsis on the back.

I mean, come on Bree. The review directly above the synopsis very clearly says "on a biblical scale." Maybe if I had read that, I would have saved myself the $20 I spent on a book I ended up hating.

And it isn't just the self-inflicted disappointment that made me dislike this book. There are a lot of issues with the writing itself.

• It's shallow and all over the place. There's a lot useless information crammed into the plot and none of it really mattered.

• We get background information on the characters that have nothing to do with the story in the long run.

• The characters themselves are so extensive yet unimportant that you forget who's who by the time shit actually starts to go down. Which takes a good third of the way through the book for it to actually get interesting.

And I'm using the term "interesting" very loosely. Because, like I said, too many people were being followed in the story for you to actually be able to follow along to what was happening.

Which wasn't much, if you're not into cliché gore horror.

• The characters were also shallow themselves. I'm okay with disliking characters. Sometimes you're meant to. What I'm not okay with is every single character fitting into so many stereotypes that the list of what they DON'T fit into is easier to remember than the list of what they do fit into.

This book, despite it being labeled as "fast-paced," felt like it took years to read. How can a fast-paced horror drag on? I'll tell you. Too many characters, not enough elaboration where it matters, and too much useless information where it doesn't matter.

Also, I've read so many other reviews that mention it, but I'm going to jump on the band wagon, because it needs to be said:

What the actual hell was that ending? Even with everything wrong with the story, the author could have chosen from so many different routes for the ending. But he chose that one?

Cliché and boring and predictable. None of those things are what I want in any of my books, especially my horror novels.

This is going straight to the donate pile although I can't think of a single person I know who would enjoy this.