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The Shuddering

Ania Ahlborn

3.62 AVERAGE

leridally's review against another edition

2.5

dark sad tense slow-paced

oshid's review against another edition

4.5

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

kaybibliophile13's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

kelly_22's review against another edition

4.0

3.5 rounded up to 4, because I love a good isolation setting, and the creatures were fantastic. Ahlborn's description of the creatures, the setting, and the sense of isolation was truly creepy. I loved the "feel" of this book, and there were many moments where I felt I couldn't turn the pages fast enough: I needed to know what was going to happen.

Where I felt it was lacking was the mindless banter and conversations between the five main characters. It really didn't add to the overall development of these characters, and I kept skipping over paragraphs of fluff. If this book was about 30 pages shorter, it would've been close to 5 stars for me.

leah__reads's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

finmeister14's review against another edition

2.0

I really didn't want my first read of 2023 to be 2 stars but the only redeeming quality of this was the pace. I HATED the ending, finished the book out of spite, and there was no suspense. I felt like I was reading a drama with random gore thrown in there.