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A review by stofkochic
Abandon by Blake Crouch
1.0
Another reader posted a review of this book calling it the 'old bait and switch', and they're exactly right.
I read the description of the book, and thought it sounded like an awesome premise: in 1893, an entire town disappeared. In 2009, a group of people are visiting the town, and the past comes back to haunt them, or something along those lines.
I was thinking it would be something really cool that made an entire town vanish into thin air: aliens, a mystical force, a plague, some crazy creatures, SOMETHING...
What actually happened? In 1893, two awful men rob the town's rich guy, proceed to murder him and other random people, and then the town preacher goes insane and locks the remaining residents in a cave. In 2009, a horrible guy tricks a nice couple and his estranged daughter into going to the town for a 'paranormal investigation', but in reality he's working with three awful guys in trying to find the lost gold.
I can't even tell you how pissed I am at how much time I lost on this book. It's all a complete lie, and like I said above, a bait and switch. I didn't care about any of the characters, I didn't care about the outcome, frankly, I found the book incredibly stupid, and a complete waste of time and energy.
I think I have other books by Blake Crouch on my to-read shelf, and after reading this pointless book, I'm probably going to never read anything else by him ever again.
I read the description of the book, and thought it sounded like an awesome premise: in 1893, an entire town disappeared. In 2009, a group of people are visiting the town, and the past comes back to haunt them, or something along those lines.
I was thinking it would be something really cool that made an entire town vanish into thin air: aliens, a mystical force, a plague, some crazy creatures, SOMETHING...
What actually happened? In 1893, two awful men rob the town's rich guy, proceed to murder him and other random people, and then the town preacher goes insane and locks the remaining residents in a cave. In 2009, a horrible guy tricks a nice couple and his estranged daughter into going to the town for a 'paranormal investigation', but in reality he's working with three awful guys in trying to find the lost gold.
I can't even tell you how pissed I am at how much time I lost on this book. It's all a complete lie, and like I said above, a bait and switch. I didn't care about any of the characters, I didn't care about the outcome, frankly, I found the book incredibly stupid, and a complete waste of time and energy.
I think I have other books by Blake Crouch on my to-read shelf, and after reading this pointless book, I'm probably going to never read anything else by him ever again.