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As a youth (& probably still) I loved Hatchet . It has exactly that mix of tension and adventure I want in a survival story. I never read the follow-up stories though so this was an interesting ride. Paulsen's writing is gripping as always but The River feels... too short to be satisfying and too long to be surprising. Where in Hatchet we got so many details about Brian's daily doings and mishaps, here we gloss over a lot of the nitty gritty of the adventure & that just makes things feel a bit empty. I will almost certainly read the rest of Brian's Saga this year & hopefully The River will feel more like a bridge to better things than an under developed adventure (or an overblown short story) with the benefit of hindsight.