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Upon being halted by the weather Todd and Kate decide to hire a car and make their journey on the road, alongside Fred and Nan, an older couple happy to share the journey. Things quickly go awry when Todd swerves to avoid a man in the road, damaging their car and leaving them no choice but to head to the nearest town on foot.

The story quickly starts to unfold from there and we are thrown into what feels like an old school horror story.
I love survival horror and it’s something that I really appreciate for the tension and dread it brings with it.

I don’t want to detail too much of the plot as I think you would benefit going in a little blind on this one. While the formula for the book wasn’t anything groundbreaking, I did enjoy it and thought the monsters were fairly original in this one.

My biggest problem with Snow, was that while the writing was good, and while I love a descriptive read….Malfi packed this with far too many ridiculous similes. It became like a drinking game with how many times I sat going “what?”
With things like: ‘The pain was like a thousand holocausts.’(bit dramatic for a leg wound) ‘Tully's eyes shook like the last two gumballs in a gumball machine.’(excuse me?) ‘the skies unmarred by clouds and about as blue as newborn baby's dreams of the womb.’(you’ve lost me.), it got a bit silly.

Overall I liked it, but Malfi definitely moved in leaps and bounds with later writing

tarah_'s review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

sunnysettoon's review

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.75

kas20771996's review against another edition

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adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.75

beccaatx's review against another edition

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dark mysterious

3.0

Fun spooky book! Should have saved it for Christmas time, but the holiday isn’t a particularly central part of the plot. This was a fun-enough ride, but overall lacks thoughtful writing. For instance, “He gathered her to him in his big arms. She pounded his chest with her small fist, but there was no power in it.” Has this… ever happened? This book was riddled with little phrases and scenarios like this that make it clear it’s written by a man who has dedicated little time to writing well rounded female characters (or perhaps just isn’t very good at it). Overall this is a good time killer, while you wait for the good books to become available from your holds at the library.

cgcross's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense

3.75

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