Reviews - This Wretched Valley

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This Wretched Valley

Jenny Kiefer

3.34 AVERAGE

guido_the_nature_guide's review against another edition

2.75

dark medium-paced

Loveable characters: No

a_beautiful_soup's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

lexicon3000's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

loooooved. Great spooky vibes to end summer. read/listened to this on the plane otw to Yosemite which was funny timing.

I love horror that has to do with actual places being the Big Bad, and this delivered. There's other forces at work, too, which was okay, but I loved how sinister the earth was in this story. Great read!

I do recommend actually reading it versus listening to it, though. Just gets a little confusing with one narrator and multiple POVs.

abbennsky's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

jalepahe's review against another edition

3.0

challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book was something (I say that a lot, lol). It was a kind of easy, kind of quick read. Kind of well written, but not great. What was going on was obvious -

the land/forest being the reason for the events.

The characters were flat. I didn't hate them, but nothing really had me invested in them. I was more invested in whether or not the dog survives (they do). Some of the gore was good, some of the body horror was good. The only great thing about the book was Clay's death and how it happened. The first death is at like, 60% and then there was nothing that really made you want to go forward. You can tell this was a debut, and that it was okay. Just okay.

iceangel9's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A horrifyingly gruesome fantasy novel set in the backwoods of Kentucky. Clay is a geologist who thinks he has discovered an untouched cliff face in rural Kentucky. He convinces his friend Dylan, a semi-professional rock climber, her boyfriend Luke, and his research assistant Sylvia to accompany him into the woods to document his find. Seven months later three bodies are found just off the highway in various stages of decay and mutilation. What happened to the foursome and where is Dylan? Did she murder her friends or is there something evil that lives in the valley?

ecandrews0's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

zsnails99's review against another edition

2.5

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

If you want a horror book that gives you the emotional reaction of eating a ham sandwich, this is the one. Neither great nor horrible, a feeling of “well I guess that’s done” upon completion.

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