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A review by horrorghoul
Snow by Ronald Malfi
4.0
TW: Fat shaming, parent abandonment, cancer, cheating, gore, abuse
*****SPOILERS*****
About the book:Todd Curry wants nothing more than to spend Christmas with his son. But when a brutal snowstorm cancels his flight from Chicago to Des Moines, Todd and a few other stranded passengers decide to rent a Jeep and make the trip on their own. During the drive, they pick up a man wandering through the snow, who claims to be searching for his lost daughter. He is disoriented and his story seems peculiar. Strangest of all are the mysterious slashes cut into the back of the man’s coat, straight down to the flesh… When they arrive at the nearest town, it appears deserted. Windows dark, car abandoned, fired burning unattended. But Todd and the rest of the travelers soon learn the town is far from deserted, and that they are being watched…
Release Date: 03/2010
Genre: Apocalyptic horror
Pages: 311
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
What I Liked:
• In this unrealistic book people do realistic things
• I like Kate
• The writing is so good
• Serious creepy moments
What I Didn't Like:
• Todd and Kate hating on overweight people
• The random pov's from different characters
• There's a ton of spelling errors
• Some parts felt repetitive
• The book didn't follow its own rules
Overall Thoughts: Starting out this book I was alarmed at how many times the main character kept bringing up the man's weight. It felt very cringe worthy and pointless. What did that offer in the way of plot?
So, from the start I hate Todd. He insults people's weight and he hasn't seen his child in a year.
Todd is an asshole. He gives Bree shit when she gets upset and tells him not to disappoint their child. She's been the one there for the child and he's been off living his life so who is he to act like she's being unreasonable.
Todd is super nice to attractive females.
Chapter nine is odd because out of the blue the narration changes and we get a perspective from Kate when so far it's been from Todd's pov.
I know that it's silly but one of my big pet peeves is that they go all day and never go pee or eat in books, but in this book they do both. The characters have to go pee and they find themselves starving so they go through someone's fridge and eat. Weird to me that it takes this unrealistic book for such a realistic moment to happen.
Some parts felt repetitive. They would go to a place they would find a survivor, then things would attack them, then those people would be killed off, then they would find another place to go and, then those people would be killed off and, so on and so on.
The rules were that batteries didn't work in this town because somehow the things were able to stop batteries from working. How did flashlights work? How did they plug the modem into a battery to work? I feel like the rules weren't followed to what the book said. If a big part of your plot is that something doesn't work you can't have it work sometimes when it fits a different purpose.
Final Thoughts: So I love in the North East and decided to start this book during a bad snow storm. It creeped me out at moments while I sat in the dark reading it on my phone. There are scenes that are described that made me scared and grossed out. The writing was absolutely wonderful. I had previously read another book by this author Come With Me and I wasn't too impressed. That book was more thriller than horror so I only have it 3.5 stars. I am happy I have the author another chance because this book was a special treat. I still hated Todd though. He's not a good person. He hates overweight people but is nice when people are attractive. He even judged the older couple that was with them by how fit they were. Overall I found this book creepy, weird, and just great writing.
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*****SPOILERS*****
About the book:Todd Curry wants nothing more than to spend Christmas with his son. But when a brutal snowstorm cancels his flight from Chicago to Des Moines, Todd and a few other stranded passengers decide to rent a Jeep and make the trip on their own. During the drive, they pick up a man wandering through the snow, who claims to be searching for his lost daughter. He is disoriented and his story seems peculiar. Strangest of all are the mysterious slashes cut into the back of the man’s coat, straight down to the flesh… When they arrive at the nearest town, it appears deserted. Windows dark, car abandoned, fired burning unattended. But Todd and the rest of the travelers soon learn the town is far from deserted, and that they are being watched…
Release Date: 03/2010
Genre: Apocalyptic horror
Pages: 311
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
What I Liked:
• In this unrealistic book people do realistic things
• I like Kate
• The writing is so good
• Serious creepy moments
What I Didn't Like:
• Todd and Kate hating on overweight people
• The random pov's from different characters
• There's a ton of spelling errors
• Some parts felt repetitive
• The book didn't follow its own rules
Overall Thoughts: Starting out this book I was alarmed at how many times the main character kept bringing up the man's weight. It felt very cringe worthy and pointless. What did that offer in the way of plot?
So, from the start I hate Todd. He insults people's weight and he hasn't seen his child in a year.
Todd is an asshole. He gives Bree shit when she gets upset and tells him not to disappoint their child. She's been the one there for the child and he's been off living his life so who is he to act like she's being unreasonable.
Todd is super nice to attractive females.
Chapter nine is odd because out of the blue the narration changes and we get a perspective from Kate when so far it's been from Todd's pov.
I know that it's silly but one of my big pet peeves is that they go all day and never go pee or eat in books, but in this book they do both. The characters have to go pee and they find themselves starving so they go through someone's fridge and eat. Weird to me that it takes this unrealistic book for such a realistic moment to happen.
Some parts felt repetitive. They would go to a place they would find a survivor, then things would attack them, then those people would be killed off, then they would find another place to go and, then those people would be killed off and, so on and so on.
The rules were that batteries didn't work in this town because somehow the things were able to stop batteries from working. How did flashlights work? How did they plug the modem into a battery to work? I feel like the rules weren't followed to what the book said. If a big part of your plot is that something doesn't work you can't have it work sometimes when it fits a different purpose.
Final Thoughts: So I love in the North East and decided to start this book during a bad snow storm. It creeped me out at moments while I sat in the dark reading it on my phone. There are scenes that are described that made me scared and grossed out. The writing was absolutely wonderful. I had previously read another book by this author Come With Me and I wasn't too impressed. That book was more thriller than horror so I only have it 3.5 stars. I am happy I have the author another chance because this book was a special treat. I still hated Todd though. He's not a good person. He hates overweight people but is nice when people are attractive. He even judged the older couple that was with them by how fit they were. Overall I found this book creepy, weird, and just great writing.
IG|Blog