A Short Stay in Hell

0.5*. Because I have to rate it something. Maybe I wasn’t the target audience for this book because i didn’t enjoy it at all. I dont fully understand the 5* on this book. They are praising it as a top horror and sci-fi and mind-blowing novella. As an avid reader in both genres. I saw nothing that was extraordinary with this book. I felt the author was so hesitant at making some of the more “horror-esque scenes” which was just maybe 2, descriptives. Not sure if that is due to inexperience or if they did not care.

Also, the sci fi? If the demon using a tablet is classified as sci fi and people getting magical food from a kiosk classifies as futuristic then by all means call it that….

Best book I’ve read this year so far. Quite well done I liked the absurdism aspects and the comments on human nature and action. Well done book.

"Finite does not mean much if you can't tell any practical difference between it and infinite." - Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell Peck does not write beautifully, and that is okay. He teeters between the psychological torment of infinity and the hopeful grasp of the finite. It was a quick and impactful read.

funny, philosophical, creative, and engaging. fun short read, though the ending was a bit dark.

Short but haunting. Any time my hopes would rise the author immediately beat them back down.