Lori
I had not seen the film before reading the book, but I had heard a lot of remarkable things about it. For me it is not really much of a scary story and more of a what if situation.
For a scenario that could be incredibly fear inducing this book was pretty tame. I had hoped (I don’t know if this is an appropriate word for this situation) to see the panic, devastation, confusion, grief and any number of emotions for a world where you suddenly cant look outside due to some unseen (unless you want to die) creatures. I would have been terrified! Not to mention the burden of loss you would feel for the world as we knew it along with the loss of friends and family. There was none of this. The absence of emotion in this book is impressive.
The story is not bad but when you don’t focus on the emotional side of things there is not much going on. You watch as the people in the house try to figure out to continue on, but you don’t care if they do. When you finally get to the more interesting part of the book, more then halfway in, you can easily guess what will happen. The boat ride was the most interesting part of the book and even then, it wasn’t as powerful as it should have been.
The book is ok for me but was not as intense as I thought it should be.
I had not seen the film before reading the book, but I had heard a lot of remarkable things about it. For me it is not really much of a scary story and more of a what if situation.
For a scenario that could be incredibly fear inducing this book was pretty tame. I had hoped (I don’t know if this is an appropriate word for this situation) to see the panic, devastation, confusion, grief and any number of emotions for a world where you suddenly cant look outside due to some unseen (unless you want to die) creatures. I would have been terrified! Not to mention the burden of loss you would feel for the world as we knew it along with the loss of friends and family. There was none of this. The absence of emotion in this book is impressive.
The story is not bad but when you don’t focus on the emotional side of things there is not much going on. You watch as the people in the house try to figure out to continue on, but you don’t care if they do. When you finally get to the more interesting part of the book, more then halfway in, you can easily guess what will happen. The boat ride was the most interesting part of the book and even then, it wasn’t as powerful as it should have been.
The book is ok for me but was not as intense as I thought it should be.