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A review by daphelba
The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.25
Man, I love a monster story. But I don't know what it was about this book...I had the hardest time wanting to read it. Some people I follow on book reviews sites absolutely loved it so I thought I was going crazy until I googled it and found a redditor saying they didn't get the hype either and really struggled with the characters. I think that's what it was for me too...every chapter my overwhelming feeling was "I don't care. I don't care. I don't care about these people or what happens to them."
I'm not good enough with evaluation of characterization to describe what it was about them, but the "witty" banter annoyed me, I didn't like their names, I wanted no one to fall in love. I only started caring a bit when the monsters came in, and I suppose that's because I could finally relate to the great-equalizer "fear" and the choices the characters had to make. It's winter here, as I'm reading, and I can relate to the feeling of isolation and stuckness, and empathize with the feeling of "something effed up is going on outside and wtf was that?! and what are we going to do about this?!"
I lived for the descriptions of the creatures and I wanted to know more and more and more about them and that's all that carried me through this book. I don't know that it was poorly written, it just didn't really interest me. Maybe if id known the characters before they went off to the cabin, I'd have felt more for them. As it stands, meh.
I'm not good enough with evaluation of characterization to describe what it was about them, but the "witty" banter annoyed me, I didn't like their names, I wanted no one to fall in love. I only started caring a bit when the monsters came in, and I suppose that's because I could finally relate to the great-equalizer "fear" and the choices the characters had to make. It's winter here, as I'm reading, and I can relate to the feeling of isolation and stuckness, and empathize with the feeling of "something effed up is going on outside and wtf was that?! and what are we going to do about this?!"
I lived for the descriptions of the creatures and I wanted to know more and more and more about them and that's all that carried me through this book. I don't know that it was poorly written, it just didn't really interest me. Maybe if id known the characters before they went off to the cabin, I'd have felt more for them. As it stands, meh.