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Crazy and creepy and fast-paced - I saw the movie first, but I still couldn’t put this down, because it was so different and I needed to know what happened. There were some of those suspense novel things that annoy me (paragraph that’s a short clipped sentence, new paragraph that is just a short clipped sentence, repeat repeat repeat), and the sheer number of coincidences (a little hard to suspend disbelief about those) but it was interesting enough that I could overlook all that and just read a
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Terrifying post-apocalyptic horror. No one knows what is causing people to go mad and kill themselves, because if you see it you'll go mad yourself. Survivors barricade themselves indoors and wear blindfolds to go outside. The story cuts back and forth between present-day Malorie, who struggles to survive alone on the river with her two young children, and past-tense pregnant Malorie, who lived with a nice group of people in a well-stocked safe house. Highly recommended for Walking Dead fans who
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I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this read! I watched the movie when it first came out on Netflix, so I was already familiar with the story. I thought this would make the read feel rote and unsurprising. But instead, I was sucked in and engaged, despite knowing where they were going on the river and what would happen when they got there.
I think Malerman does a great job weaving the story together, jumping back and forth in time between the present and the time before the children were born. ...more
I think Malerman does a great job weaving the story together, jumping back and forth in time between the present and the time before the children were born. ...more
I have no idea what to think of this book. It was strange and odd, for sure. The concept was a little interesting but, somehow, I never felt "scared" enough. It wasn't all that scary or horrifying or "hitchcockian" like the cover boasts (which made me buy it). It was original though, so 3 stars.
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hooray! scary horror! Is there such thing as a Sensory Horror subgenre? bc that would qualify.
Jun 16, 2014
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