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Due to a language barrier, six young travelers find themselves entangled within 'The Ruins' and they cannot escape. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it to any fan of horror fiction.
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Oct 11, 2010
Lisa (Harmonybites)
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A blurb on the cover from Stephen King calls this "the best horror novel of the new century." It is a very well-written story in a line-by-line sense--literate, with a masterfully done omniscient point of view--yet ultimately couldn't hold me.
The reason was the characters. In terms of them feeling rounded and real I couldn't fault the characterizations of Jeff and Amy, Eric and Stacey, two couples who carry the narrative between them. The problem I think, that I found this a tedious read and im ...more
The reason was the characters. In terms of them feeling rounded and real I couldn't fault the characterizations of Jeff and Amy, Eric and Stacey, two couples who carry the narrative between them. The problem I think, that I found this a tedious read and im ...more
It was supposed to be a fun Mexican vacation, but then two American couples befriend a German and three Greeks and find their lives changed forever. When the German says his brother had gone to an Archeological site and had not returned, he asks the four Americans to join him on a sort of rescue mission. When they arrive at the secluded spot they find more than they bargained for with an unknown horror which might be out to kill them.
I decided to purchase this novel as I had heard many vloggers ...more
I decided to purchase this novel as I had heard many vloggers ...more
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