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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
It felt like scream if scream was humorless and slow.
dark
mysterious
fast-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 has a very unoriginal concept: a group of teenagers plans a party at one of their parents’ mansions that is about to get renovated. They show up to set up the party and ~a storm hits~ trapping them all there. Suddenly, people start dying and they have to try to figure out which one of them is doing it. I generally like this trope even though it’s not super original so I was going in with relative excitement but this book was just not good. The characters were all pretty flat and while it was pretty fast-paced I just didn’t find myself caring very much about any of them or the outcomes. And the ending was honestly just so ridiculous and stupid that the minimal enjoyment I had for the rest of it just kinda went down the toilet. No me gusta.
dark
tense
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:
Yes
The story was fine, but there were moments the action moved so fast I missed it, and the ending didn't work for me. I also felt little for the characters and their motivations didn't ring true for me. There were moments when I felt I was being told things I wish I'd seen actioned, and showing things I just needed telling.
Overall it was an OK story but the constant splitting of the party started to feel forced and laboured by the end.
Overall it was an OK story but the constant splitting of the party started to feel forced and laboured by the end.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
fast-paced
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Actually a really good thriller, not as big as a cliffhanger as the other books of her I’ve read. The lost of the final star was me just not liking the ending. I was able to guess at least one of the killers but it was well written where I didn’t care!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A group of friends decide to have a secret party weekend in a remote castle owned by the parents of one of the teens. Undergoing development, the castle has limited electricity & heating & no-one will know they are there. Soon after they arrive a storm rages & only 10 of them manage to make it to the site. The weather traps them inside & their mobiles go missing on the first evening so they can't call for help, & as one by one they begin to meet with fatal 'accidents', friend Bessie & Kash realise they are trapped with friends that they don't know as well as they thought.
The covers, settings, & synopses of the books by this author suck me in every time, & every time the characters are too underdeveloped for the reader to care about what happens to them. In this one there was also a lot of wandering about with a killer on the loose - the group would decide to stay together (safety in numbers) & then one of them would suddenly take off meaning the rest of them would split up to find them. Rinse & repeat. Entertaining enough to finish reading it but I wouldn't pick it up again.
The covers, settings, & synopses of the books by this author suck me in every time, & every time the characters are too underdeveloped for the reader to care about what happens to them. In this one there was also a lot of wandering about with a killer on the loose - the group would decide to stay together (safety in numbers) & then one of them would suddenly take off meaning the rest of them would split up to find them. Rinse & repeat. Entertaining enough to finish reading it but I wouldn't pick it up again.