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krakens_ink 's review for:
Escape Room - Nur drei Stunden
by Chris McGeorge
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
DNF at 55%
How do you even manage to make a book with the focus on a murder and the time running out this boring?
The premises of this sounded so interesting and intriguing but the things that actually happened were so boring and predictable.
Even with the focus on the pressure they were under to solve the murder in time, the reader ends up with 200 pages left while they only have 17 more minutes to solve the murder. There was literally no tension in this book and it was impossible for the reader to feel for the characters at all.
More than once, I found myself hoping they would just all die in that room so it would be over.
Not to mention the fact that our main character Morgan Sheppard was the most useless and most stupid person you could ever imagine having as a main character. Every idea he had was unoriginal, predictable and ended up not working out (as expected). And then, he was surprised it didn't work out.
The way McGeorge wrote the addict aspect of Sheppard's character was like he forgot that he had made this part of the character for thirty pages, just to then remember and be incredibly annoying with it for one singular page just to then forget again for the next thirty pages.
All the other characters weren't much more interesting, they just fell insanely flat or were annoying. None of them were an actual help to the development of the story.
All of the flashbacks you get in the story that are supposed to help you solve the crime - or at least I assume that's what they were supposed to do - were annoying and useless and just slowed the story down even more as if I wasn't suffering through every word already.
When I finally decided to DNF this, I spoilered the end to form an opinion if it would have been worth it to finish it. It wouldn't have been.
The way they finally managed to get out of this room makes me mad and I haven't even personally read it. The end of the entire story is just boring and doesn't fit the premises of this book at all. If I would have wanted a story like this, I wouldn't have picked up this book - it ended up not being at all what it promised to be.
How do you even manage to make a book with the focus on a murder and the time running out this boring?
The premises of this sounded so interesting and intriguing but the things that actually happened were so boring and predictable.
Even with the focus on the pressure they were under to solve the murder in time, the reader ends up with 200 pages left while they only have 17 more minutes to solve the murder. There was literally no tension in this book and it was impossible for the reader to feel for the characters at all.
More than once, I found myself hoping they would just all die in that room so it would be over.
Not to mention the fact that our main character Morgan Sheppard was the most useless and most stupid person you could ever imagine having as a main character. Every idea he had was unoriginal, predictable and ended up not working out (as expected). And then, he was surprised it didn't work out.
The way McGeorge wrote the addict aspect of Sheppard's character was like he forgot that he had made this part of the character for thirty pages, just to then remember and be incredibly annoying with it for one singular page just to then forget again for the next thirty pages.
All the other characters weren't much more interesting, they just fell insanely flat or were annoying. None of them were an actual help to the development of the story.
All of the flashbacks you get in the story that are supposed to help you solve the crime - or at least I assume that's what they were supposed to do - were annoying and useless and just slowed the story down even more as if I wasn't suffering through every word already.
When I finally decided to DNF this, I spoilered the end to form an opinion if it would have been worth it to finish it. It wouldn't have been.
The way they finally managed to get out of this room makes me mad and I haven't even personally read it. The end of the entire story is just boring and doesn't fit the premises of this book at all. If I would have wanted a story like this, I wouldn't have picked up this book - it ended up not being at all what it promised to be.