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The Ruins

Scott Smith

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Aug 07, 2024 Olivermagnus rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, x7, horror, mexico, 2024, zaug-24

Jeff and Amy and Scott and Stacy are two couples spending three weeks in Cancun, Mexico after graduation from college. While on the beach, they make friends with a German and three Greeks. Matthias, the German, is concerned about his brother who has been missing for several days. He left a note for Matthias before leaving to work on an archaeological dig and never returned. When Matthias searched his room, he discovered his brother had left behind a map of his intended destination. The two coupl ...more

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Apr 24, 2015 Sunshine✰✰✰ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, thriller, suspense

I saw the movie years ago so I didn't remember much outside the basics when I read this. I think I'm going to be freaking out every time I feel something brush me for the next month! Creep factor is at an all time high! I have learned some valuable traveling lessons though...

Rule #1: When in a foreign country, do not hang out with people you can't communicate with.
Rule #2: Do not agree to go looking for lost siblings when in said foreign country.
Rule #3: Do not go to some mysterious ruins who's ...more

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Oct 02, 2023 Tara rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2023

Note to self - usually i wouldn't mark a book I only half-finished as "read," buttt in this case I'm going to make an exception because! I attended a book club for this book and we talked about the entire thing extensively, including the parts I didn't read, and the movie, and the ending. So it counts.

tl;dr this book made me feel my age. ...more

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Oct 06, 2024 Carissa Brown rated it liked it

Shelves: adult, sci-fi, audiobook, horror

When a group of friends finds one of their own missing they head into the forest to find him. When the locals warn them they do not listen. They soon find themselves stuck in the woods, surrounded by people with arrows and guns. The forest is a live malevolent thing and it doesn't want anyone to leave.

A horror moving esque book. The people make all the wrong decisions and act like idiots. They're warned many times by locals not to go, but they went. Couldn't help, but judge their every choice. ...more

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Nov 25, 2019 it's ya boy harv rated it it was amazing

Shelves: survival-maybe, favorites

Gnarly and gross. I loved every second of it. Reminded me of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, which might just mean I need to read more survival horror - actually I should do that anyway because it's totally my thing. Some of the imagery is going to stick with me for a long time. ...more

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