Thursday, August 29, 2019

The good, the bad, and the unreadable

Let me preface this entry by saying that I HATE writing negative reviews.  I know what it must take to put your writing out there to be critiqued (I have never had the courage to do so), and I would like to be able to say at least one positive thing about a book.  However, sometimes that is just not feasible.  Such was the case with a library book I checked out this week.


"The Cabin at the End of the World" by Paul Tremblay - ❤❤

This book has incredibly high ratings, and often makes appearances on book lists across the web.  Since I love horror, I decided to check it out.  My local library had it, so that made the choice even easier.

I really did not like it.  At all.  It was a struggle to keep reading, and I found it to be sort of half-baked and ludicrous.  The plot is that a bunch of strangers take a couple and their child hostage within their cabin, claiming that if they don't choose someone within their party as a sacrifice, the world will end.  Pretty unbelievable, if you ask me.  At times, it felt like it was trying really hard to be a horror movie script (definitely reminded me of The Strangers).  At other times, I was just waiting for the other shoe to drop and for there to be some incredible twist that would justify the time and energy spent during the rest of the story.  I don't want to spoil anything for you if you haven't read the book, but that never happens.  The ending (if you could even call it that) was intensely dissatisfying.  

Seasons

My life has been in a bit of an upheaval for the past few months, so I have not written anything.  I have missed blog tour dates and for th...