
This was an interesting read, but it did not quite
fulfill the expectations its blurb creates.
What I felt, more than anything, was that its pace
was too slow for the genre. Although the very beginning (I’m talking about the first
two or three pages) is attention-catching, the rest slowly unwinds in a way
that doesn’t help maintain the right amount of tension.
The best thing that the novel has going for it is
the location. The action takes place in such a desolate area that it goes a
long way into building up a bit of fear in the reader. If the pace had been a
bit faster, tenser, it would have made for a truly chilling read.
As it is, I would perhaps recommend it to people who
like a literary thriller, although the writing is not quite literary.
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