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A review by tatiannamaria
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
4.0
4⭐
a chilling road trip, there is a fine line between intelligence and madness
Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.
Jake is on a road trip with his girlfriend. Destination: the farm where he grew up and where his parents still live.
However, on her way to meet his parents, the girl is contemplating "ending things" with Jake, for no particular reason, with no fault of his own.
As the night goes on, things get progressively more unsettling. Jake's parents are peculiar, the farm is not a rural paradise with the dead, frozen animals and the weird basement. They end up leaving the farm late at night, with a snow-storm raging outside, because Jake has work the next morning. Only to end up at a high school where things get seriously creepy. You can feel someone following you. And the part where Jake unravels is so well done in the audiobook , with the change from female to male voice, it genuinely made me look over my shoulder as I was walking home from work. What a mindfuck!
a chilling road trip, there is a fine line between intelligence and madness
Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.
Spoiler
I'm still unsure if I'm smart enough to grasp all the nuances of this book, but oh boy is it trippy!Jake is on a road trip with his girlfriend. Destination: the farm where he grew up and where his parents still live.
However, on her way to meet his parents, the girl is contemplating "ending things" with Jake, for no particular reason, with no fault of his own.
As the night goes on, things get progressively more unsettling. Jake's parents are peculiar, the farm is not a rural paradise with the dead, frozen animals and the weird basement. They end up leaving the farm late at night, with a snow-storm raging outside, because Jake has work the next morning. Only to end up at a high school where things get seriously creepy. You can feel someone following you. And the part where Jake unravels is so well done in the audiobook , with the change from female to male voice, it genuinely made me look over my shoulder as I was walking home from work. What a mindfuck!