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A review by lorenipsum
In the Dark by Loreth Anne White
1.0
I generally am pretty comfortable ditching a book halfway in if I am not enjoying it; I don't have enough free time to force myself to read bad books.
Yet somehow, I forced myself to get almost all the way through this book before I allowed myself to give up. (I blame two trans-Atlantic flights for tricking me into thinking that this would be a good way to spend my time).
This book was aggressively bad. The "twist" was clear from a mile away, the characters were all deeply unsympathetic in the most boring way possible, and it was far too repetitive. The "lodge party" would go through a series of events, or experience a series of revelations, and then the SAR team would repeat what happened to the victims almost verbatim.
It was even worse because "And Then There Were None" is one of my all-time favorite books, so the frequency with which this book explicitly tried to compare itself to Christie's plot felt insulting.
I admit, I did not make it to the very end, so it is entirely possible that there is some major twist in the last three or so chapters, but I gave up on the book when I made the realization that no twist could be so effective and mindblowing that it would make up for the 50-some chapters of bad dialogue, repetitive action, and awkward storytelling.
Yet somehow, I forced myself to get almost all the way through this book before I allowed myself to give up. (I blame two trans-Atlantic flights for tricking me into thinking that this would be a good way to spend my time).
This book was aggressively bad. The "twist" was clear from a mile away, the characters were all deeply unsympathetic in the most boring way possible, and it was far too repetitive. The "lodge party" would go through a series of events, or experience a series of revelations, and then the SAR team would repeat what happened to the victims almost verbatim.
It was even worse because "And Then There Were None" is one of my all-time favorite books, so the frequency with which this book explicitly tried to compare itself to Christie's plot felt insulting.
I admit, I did not make it to the very end, so it is entirely possible that there is some major twist in the last three or so chapters, but I gave up on the book when I made the realization that no twist could be so effective and mindblowing that it would make up for the 50-some chapters of bad dialogue, repetitive action, and awkward storytelling.