Reviews

The Night Will Find Us by Matthew Lyons

mariewikle's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Loved it

badseedgirl's review against another edition

3.0

I have been gun-shy of most recent YA books because they have felt so very predictable to me. The would be a chaste but intense insta-love triangle between our female protagonist and a dark, broody young man who has a good heart and a nice, sweet young man with a good heart. Sigh.

I am thrilled that The Night Will Find Us has none of that. The book starts with a group of six friends who are going into their senior year who go into the woods for a camping weekend. The is a dynamic and complicated group, bu there are no love triangles.

It was interesting read that kept me interested.

paoakalani's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

enyltiak's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.25

veroperovero's review against another edition

4.0

This is a survival story full of twists and turns. At some point, I just wanted the book to end just because it felt like the main characters couldn’t catch a break. Also, morality isn’t super clear here like in many horror stories- the protagonists don’t follow a predictable moral compass. There are certain actions that should clearly make you the bad guy, but I suppose there’s bad and there’s evil, nightmarish bad. There’s a lot of action and description- and at some point even readers get tired of an endless forest- but the book is short enough so that the nature saturation is tolerable.

witchykind's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

tarshka's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

I like the bits of cosmic horror a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

victoria80's review against another edition

3.0

3.5 this started off great. I really enjoyed the various characters and the complex relationships and their individual struggles. The setting was dark, creepy and claustrophobic. My only issue is that I feel it could have been further developed. It became slightly repetitive towards the end and the ending itself a little rushed without any satisfactory explanations for the deeper parts of the story. I still really enjoyed it and the audiobook was well narrated. I fell in love with the character of Parker (the voice was amazing!)

mellambert's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

3.5

This is a book I've been wanting to read for awhile. It moved quickly with supernatural forces, but I always kinda wish people left things a little more vague. When it's vague it's spookier. When you give something a back story you ruin the fear.

✅ Final Girls

 ✅ Evil Woods
 ✅ Annoying Teens
 ✅ Hatchet!

trishthebooknerd's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0