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3.01 AVERAGE
3.01 AVERAGE
Pov I'm trying to eat my crackers for lunch, listening to this audiobook and some girl keeps talking about her nasty twisted foot and peeing in jars as some creepy dude jerks off in the background.
The Woods Are Always Watching is about two best friends who take a camping trip by themselves for the first time and things go wrong. Suddenly they are injured and someone is stalking them.
I really tried. I saw the shit rating and even after the mess that was [b:There's Someone Inside Your House|15797848|There's Someone Inside Your House|Stephanie Perkins|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1493650191l/15797848._SY75_.jpg|21520760] I was like okay Stephanie let's do it. But honestly this was worse, which is saying something.
So these two best friends go hiking & camping... for the first time. They have absolutely no idea what they were doing and I still don't get why they even wanted to do this. Instantly they start getting mad at each other until suddenly they start getting attacked. One of them gets REALLY fucked up and it was just ??? She spends the entire book NOT dying and it was ridiculous like I am no doctor but sis would have been dead hours ago, let alone all the extra trauma she goes through after. And then the other girl starts getting messed up too like please...
Shock is a thing and they were doing way too much. Shock can literally kill you but okay keep doing whatever you are doing then. Also, ew I didn't need all the details about her mangled up and tangled up foot every other page. Yes this is a murder book, okay, but I would believe ghosts are coming out and haunting the woods in cute bedsheets instead of her doing all this shit while BLEEDING OUT IN A DITCH IN THE GROUND before she gets HER HAND DESTROYED TOO. Also why is there an asthmatic character in every horror movie / book ever like we get it, you can't breathe just go home.
Because this book is (thankfully) short, we get no character development nor do we get any actual reason any of this happens. The bad guy is a bad guy because he is evil. He just wants to be psycho idk who cares right?
The suspense was not there and it was all just a waste of time. I know I don't care for survival stories in general but come on. Why the pee jar as a weapon though why.
I'm not reading another one of these if the author writes another one lol I am done.
The Woods Are Always Watching is about two best friends who take a camping trip by themselves for the first time and things go wrong. Suddenly they are injured and someone is stalking them.
I really tried. I saw the shit rating and even after the mess that was [b:There's Someone Inside Your House|15797848|There's Someone Inside Your House|Stephanie Perkins|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1493650191l/15797848._SY75_.jpg|21520760] I was like okay Stephanie let's do it. But honestly this was worse, which is saying something.
So these two best friends go hiking & camping... for the first time. They have absolutely no idea what they were doing and I still don't get why they even wanted to do this. Instantly they start getting mad at each other until suddenly they start getting attacked. One of them gets REALLY fucked up and it was just ??? She spends the entire book NOT dying and it was ridiculous like I am no doctor but sis would have been dead hours ago, let alone all the extra trauma she goes through after. And then the other girl starts getting messed up too like please...
Shock is a thing and they were doing way too much. Shock can literally kill you but okay keep doing whatever you are doing then. Also, ew I didn't need all the details about her mangled up and tangled up foot every other page. Yes this is a murder book, okay, but I would believe ghosts are coming out and haunting the woods in cute bedsheets instead of her doing all this shit while BLEEDING OUT IN A DITCH IN THE GROUND before she gets HER HAND DESTROYED TOO. Also why is there an asthmatic character in every horror movie / book ever like we get it, you can't breathe just go home.
Because this book is (thankfully) short, we get no character development nor do we get any actual reason any of this happens. The bad guy is a bad guy because he is evil. He just wants to be psycho idk who cares right?
The suspense was not there and it was all just a waste of time. I know I don't care for survival stories in general but come on. Why the pee jar as a weapon though why.
I'm not reading another one of these if the author writes another one lol I am done.
mysterious
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:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
This was a short and terrifying read! There wasn't a slow moment for me.
Both girls are that, girls. They're girls who are both terrified of the big life changes that they're going through and end up taking that frustration out on each other which leads to them being reckless and needing to separate to find help. Only help doesn't come. A serial killer looking for his next victim does.
After reading this, I don't think I'll be hiking or camping for a while. This was literally the bear vs man question and the worst scenario happening.
Both girls are that, girls. They're girls who are both terrified of the big life changes that they're going through and end up taking that frustration out on each other which leads to them being reckless and needing to separate to find help. Only help doesn't come. A serial killer looking for his next victim does.
After reading this, I don't think I'll be hiking or camping for a while. This was literally the bear vs man question and the worst scenario happening.
I was so excited for this book bc I loved There's Someone In Your House. Unfortunately; she must have peaked with that book; bc this book was horrible. I'm sorry I took the time away from KOA to even bother reading it; but I had borrowed it from Libby & they wanted it back! lol There was no real drama in this or scariness or much of anything. And the ending was unrealistic to say the least.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
I'm going to break this review down in pros and cons. I was not a huge fan of this book but don't want to berate the book itself.
Pros:
-atmospheric book set in the woods
-some genuinely creepy moments
-serial killers
Cons
-the first 100ish pages are the friends fighting an bickering with one another
-slow pace book even though it's 200ish pages.
-unrealistic injuries to actually survive
-the ending of the climax seemed a bit unrealistic as well
Pros:
-atmospheric book set in the woods
-some genuinely creepy moments
-serial killers
Cons
-the first 100ish pages are the friends fighting an bickering with one another
-slow pace book even though it's 200ish pages.
-unrealistic injuries to actually survive
-the ending of the climax seemed a bit unrealistic as well
Absolutely nothing happens for 90% of this book, and all of the characters are annoying