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This Wretched Valley

Jenny Kiefer

3.34 AVERAGE

eem1212's review

4.5
dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
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edsbian's review

4.0
dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I enjoyed it!! Its a fun and mildly tropey ride, a horror movie in novel form if that makes any sense. Awesome descriptions that were super evocative I could imagine them being movie scenes easily
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crackontrack's review

2.0
adventurous challenging mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
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pathfindernicole's review

4.0
dark mysterious tense
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morgan0325's review

1.0
dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The 1 ⭐️ is for me because I finished this book. Interesting premise, caught my attention early on but became very repetitive. Didn't care about any of the characters and it felt like there was too much happening. Never felt scary and it’s pretty easy to scare me. Take a shot every time you read the words pockmarks, tendons, or barf and you’ll die. 
dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional tense slow-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

It was fine. I wanted more of a theme. This felt like a mixed bag of scares with no real throughline. 
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philippa14's review

2.0

This was just… meh. 

I liked the premise, I liked the nods to the Dyatlov pass incident and the Donner party… But it just didn’t grab me at all. I didn’t care what happened to them. I could’ve put it down at any point and not been bothered, just for some reason, did not connect with the writing 
adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
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madisonclarea's review

2.5
adventurous dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No