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A review by ghoststories
The Woods Are Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins
1.0
Honestly, if I wasn't trying to cram in 10 more books before the year ends I would have ABSOLUTELY DNF'ed this and I never DNF /anything/ because I am spiteful.
The two main characters were insufferable and had they just matured a bit and talked about their feelings, things might have gone a lot differently. But, then again they are teenagers, soo. By the time the bad shit started happening to them I had no emotional attachment to them to actually care or want them to make it out alive. I'm not sure if the author's intention was to show readers how toxic friendships aren't healthy, but I don't believe that's what's being portrayed here.
The antagonists having no other motive than being "crazy, perverted, abused as children, Appalachian hillbillies." and that's so yawn inducingly boring. Maybe I'm just sensitive as a Southerner, but it's a tired and played out trope in horror.
Also the injuries that one of the characters sustains literally should have killed her! How is she crawling out of extremely deep holes and firing shotguns with even a semblance of accuracy!
I want to give her other horror book a chance since it seems to be pretty well liked... maybe I did myself a favor by reading this one first?
The weirdly high reviews on this make me feel like I'm being gaslit. Did we read the same book?
The two main characters were insufferable and had they just matured a bit and talked about their feelings, things might have gone a lot differently. But, then again they are teenagers, soo. By the time the bad shit started happening to them I had no emotional attachment to them to actually care or want them to make it out alive. I'm not sure if the author's intention was to show readers how toxic friendships aren't healthy, but I don't believe that's what's being portrayed here.
The antagonists having no other motive than being "crazy, perverted, abused as children, Appalachian hillbillies." and that's so yawn inducingly boring. Maybe I'm just sensitive as a Southerner, but it's a tired and played out trope in horror.
Also the injuries that one of the characters sustains literally should have killed her! How is she crawling out of extremely deep holes and firing shotguns with even a semblance of accuracy!
I want to give her other horror book a chance since it seems to be pretty well liked... maybe I did myself a favor by reading this one first?
The weirdly high reviews on this make me feel like I'm being gaslit. Did we read the same book?