A review by posies23
Desert Places by Blake Crouch

4.0

I used to have a copy of this book in my classroom library when I taught high school. One year, this total non-reader kid kept telling me how he'd never read a book in his life, he'd never read a book, etc. etc. I gave him a copy of this book. He was hooked. Loved it. Read it two or three times. Then, one day he came to school and told me, literally with a tear in his eye, that he'd been carrying it around in his back pocket, fallen in a mud puddle, and ruined it. He gushed about how much he loved it, how it made him think, and how great it was, and how it inspired him to seek out other horror books. He offered to buy me a new copy, but I told him that the story alone was worth it.

So . . . there you go.