Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Hide and Seek by Jack Ketchum

2 reviews

lay_kone's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Murder, Death, Confinement, Sexual assault, Incest, Grief, Rape, Animal cruelty, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Child death, Blood, and Body horror

ruthypoo2's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Though this is a pretty short book, the first 50% is focused on character development. I don’t mind character development, but I didn’t like the four primary characters and didn’t particularly enjoy spending that much time with them - essentially a study in a hedonist young lifestyle with little concern about consequence. And at least one of them seemed to be particularly careless and almost sinister in their disregard for the others.

Once the story transitioned to the characters playing a risky game of hide and seek in an abandoned and notorious local old house, the story became more interesting for me. And there were a few pages of creepy atmosphere, but the eventual direction the story took caught me a little off guard. The second half was fine, and compelling. The story was written really well, I simply didn’t care about the characters.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Animal cruelty, Death, Alcohol, and Sexual content

Minor: Gore, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, and Incest