Okay the plot, the gore and the “creature” in this were fantastic. I didn’t think the vine would scare me but I ended that book never wanting to be near a plant again. It was some solid horror and definitely King-esque.
However, holy shit this author has never met a real life woman. The female characters were so one-dimensional and everything was weirdly sexual. There was a lot of subtle and not so subtle misogyny intertwined (see what I did there) throughout the book. And the men in this were mostly disgusting or barely given any depth. -500/10 for character writing but 5/5 for plot/horror.