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A review by luck13rabbit
That Night in the Woods by Kristopher Triana
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
"Don't be afraid."
I hadn't read anything by Triana before, but I'd heard so many good things about #GoneToSeeTheRiverMan that I was excited to jump into this one. I love it when terrible things happen in majestic woods.
But this was kind of a struggle.
It felt like most of the book was an explanation of the story. I never got lost in the words because we were constantly pulled out of it to be told something irrelevant.
I also found the...for lack of a better word, gender politics off-putting. Perhaps there was meant to be a message in the way the women were all very concerned with their appearances and the men were fully caught in lust and toxic masculinity, but I missed it.
And then there's my mystery pet peeve. The Scooby Doo style of reveals where you, the reader, never really has enough information to figure anything out. Knowledge is given to you too late, in info-dumps or exposition via dialogue between characters who don't need to be telling each other these things.
YMMV. Maybe this just wasn't for me. I'm still going to read more Triana. The story here was good and I've heard some of the issues I had are uncharacteristic for his writing.
🍂🍂
2/5 sweater weather breezes smelling of doom and bad omens.
I hadn't read anything by Triana before, but I'd heard so many good things about #GoneToSeeTheRiverMan that I was excited to jump into this one. I love it when terrible things happen in majestic woods.
But this was kind of a struggle.
It felt like most of the book was an explanation of the story. I never got lost in the words because we were constantly pulled out of it to be told something irrelevant.
I also found the...for lack of a better word, gender politics off-putting. Perhaps there was meant to be a message in the way the women were all very concerned with their appearances and the men were fully caught in lust and toxic masculinity, but I missed it.
And then there's my mystery pet peeve. The Scooby Doo style of reveals where you, the reader, never really has enough information to figure anything out. Knowledge is given to you too late, in info-dumps or exposition via dialogue between characters who don't need to be telling each other these things.
YMMV. Maybe this just wasn't for me. I'm still going to read more Triana. The story here was good and I've heard some of the issues I had are uncharacteristic for his writing.
🍂🍂
2/5 sweater weather breezes smelling of doom and bad omens.