Black Tide by K.C. Jones [book review]

Book: Black Tide

By: K. C. Jones

Published: May 31, 2022

Publisher: Nightfire

Pages: 245

Genre: Horror

Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links. What this means is that if you purchase anything through the links I have provided for you then I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Please consider supporting my blog.

Amazon

About Black Tide

Black Tide follows Beth for the most part. She is hired to stay at a strangers house to house sit and dog sit. It all started with just a regular day on the beach when Beth made friends with her neighbor Mike. After a drunken night, they both wake up to a cosmic horror happening. Even though at first it was a bit scary it is still something that caught everyone’s interest to be up close and personal with it. That is until the monsters come out to play.

What I thought

I managed to get an advance copy of Black Tide through Netgalley and I was pretty excited to get to it at the time. Granted it took me a while to actually get through the book. For a while I was going through a pretty rough patch when it came to reading. Now I’m kind of getting back on track and I’m so happy about that!

So, I can’t really decide how I feel about Black Tide. I love the concept and I know I would be scared if I was in a situation like this. I know I would probably panic and do something really stupid. Having a meteor land in the city you’re in would be crazy enough, but having monsters show up would be the worst. It’s hard to imagine.

I think what bothers me most with the book is that it literally takes place in one spot. I have never been a fan of books or movies that stay in one spot. It gets a little boring and there’s only so much you can do when your characters are stuck in the same area for a long period of time. At least that’s what it feels like to me.

I just wish there was more going on in the story. There are a couple of times I wound up losing interest because there’s just not much going on other than the two main characters trying to escape. I kind of wanted more action than what we got.

My only other issue is that I didn’t exactly care for the main characters all that much. I wasn’t all that invested in if they actually survived or not. To me, I kind of feel like Black Tide really relies on actually caring for them and rooting for them.

However, there are a couple of things I enjoyed about the story. I feel like K.C. Jones does a great job pushing the plot forward. I have come across way too many books where the plot kind of goes on a standstill and it takes forever for the flow to start picking up again. That didn’t happen with this one. The other thing is that I found Beth to be a really kick-ass character. There are aspects of her that I love!

If you like books like this then you may also like Social horror books.