Talk:The Haunting of Braidwood Manor/@comment-757940-20180709080438

Just finished the book. I have played (counting the ongoing Veil/Eligible) 10 Choices books before this one; and this one is definitely my least favorite. It is so underwhelming. It gives way too little exposition before the meat of the events of the book begin. The worst part of the book for me was how the supernatural elements went completely unexplained. Completely. The anticlimactic final boss battle and very, very uneventful ending were also huge problems.

Now the book definitely isn't all bad; it was obviously decent enough for me to finish it. Namely, I was interested to continue at the endpoints of each of the non-last chapters. I will give the book credit for it's excellent soundtrack; this came out rather early in the Choices lifespan, and I heard most of the tracks in other series by this point, and they were all great tracks, that piano piece is beautiful but haunting. And I like the effort PB put into the visuals, like those flashing/moving lights in Chapter 2/3 that legit made me scary; I would say this book rivals ILITW for scariness. I wish ILITW borrowed the visual effects that were scary from this game.

But all in all, this book was rather underwhelming and forgettable. And you know who seems to agree with me - PB themselves. Despite it being a year and a half since this book came out, they haven't given any indication of a sequel. They themselves don't view this series as valuable enough.

At least PB has improved their horror writing skills; ILITW was absolutely fantastic, and if this game gave them prep for writing it then I can appreciate the game's existence for that. But I can't say I'd have a problem if this one book was the last we saw of Braidwood Manor. Because bluntly put, PB has done and is doing better.