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3.0 AVERAGE
3.0 AVERAGE
1.5/5
So this was just…bad? Like who let this be a book? The first half was completely boring, just two teenage best friends on a camping trip. Except they don’t know what they’re doing and they’re SO mean to each other. Then the scary shit starts to happen and it simply makes no sense, there’s no good motive, and it’s just too whacky. The first half I was bored to tears and the second half I just wanted it to be over. Imagine a slasher movie except it doesn’t even pretend to have real motive (already that’s tenuous in the genre but here it was nonexistent).
So this was just…bad? Like who let this be a book? The first half was completely boring, just two teenage best friends on a camping trip. Except they don’t know what they’re doing and they’re SO mean to each other. Then the scary shit starts to happen and it simply makes no sense, there’s no good motive, and it’s just too whacky. The first half I was bored to tears and the second half I just wanted it to be over. Imagine a slasher movie except it doesn’t even pretend to have real motive (already that’s tenuous in the genre but here it was nonexistent).
I liked this book better than There’s Someone Inside Your House. There were parts that were really good and I was into and others I thought dragged. If the first 100 pages had been shortened a little, it might have been 4 stars.
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
this was a let down :(
Edit to add my review :
Okay, let me get this out of the way. I was very excited for this book so maybe my expectations were a little higher than most who have read this book.
Neena and Josie are best friends, and have been for years. It's portrayed in the beginning as them being practially sisters, but honestly it seems like they'd make better enemies. Neena is leaving for college, so they decide to embark on one last trip together. They decide to go camping - even though neither one of them has any idea what they're doing - for three days.
I just feel like absolutely nothing happened. The girls are fighting from the beginning, so that makes it awkward to read. I believe I could have felt stronger toward the characters if I was able to see an actual friendship, but honestly it just seemed like they had deep feelings of jealously and hatred toward each other.
We are given sentence after sentence of them walking, like I get it - it's a book about camping but it was so boring. This book is 224 pages, and the thriller aspect doesn't happen until around the 140's - so you don't get a lot of action.
Don't even get me started on the ending - I was so bewildered and mad at what I read. It didn't even make logical sense and I'm still mad over it. Then, on top of that, we don't even get an epilogue or anything! We have no clue what happens to them, or how they're doing. We learn nothing about the killers. They're just two random guys in the woods who decide to kill women.
The whole book is full of plot holes and plot conveniences.
Rant over.
Edit to add my review :
Okay, let me get this out of the way. I was very excited for this book so maybe my expectations were a little higher than most who have read this book.
Neena and Josie are best friends, and have been for years. It's portrayed in the beginning as them being practially sisters, but honestly it seems like they'd make better enemies. Neena is leaving for college, so they decide to embark on one last trip together. They decide to go camping - even though neither one of them has any idea what they're doing - for three days.
I just feel like absolutely nothing happened. The girls are fighting from the beginning, so that makes it awkward to read. I believe I could have felt stronger toward the characters if I was able to see an actual friendship, but honestly it just seemed like they had deep feelings of jealously and hatred toward each other.
We are given sentence after sentence of them walking, like I get it - it's a book about camping but it was so boring. This book is 224 pages, and the thriller aspect doesn't happen until around the 140's - so you don't get a lot of action.
Don't even get me started on the ending - I was so bewildered and mad at what I read. It didn't even make logical sense and I'm still mad over it. Then, on top of that, we don't even get an epilogue or anything! We have no clue what happens to them, or how they're doing. We learn nothing about the killers. They're just two random guys in the woods who decide to kill women.
The whole book is full of plot holes and plot conveniences.
Rant over.
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Odd ending but very good prose and communication; not a lot of people I could personally recommend it to because of the genre but a good read
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
tense
fast-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
The first half made me bored and wondered why they didn't just go to Six Flags...the second half made me afraid of camping for good.