A review by rangerwing75
The Toll by Neal Shusterman

Did not finish book. Stopped at 58%.
I don’t know what went wrong between Thunderhead and this but something must have because this could not have been more of a drag.

I genuinely tried to enjoy this book. It was fun at first, but it quickly grew tiresome. It’s a long book - longer than it needs to be with all of its paragraphs and chapters focusing on unimportant characters. We didn’t need an entire chapter dedicated to the woes of a random painter we never see again. I’d put the book down and almost dread picking it back up.

It’s long, it’s slow, and the story isn’t engaging enough to make me not care about those things. This isn’t like in Journey to the West where at least the story is funny even if the chapters are packed with poetry. A disappointing end to what was looking to be an amazing trilogy. 
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