Lori
This was not the creature in the woods horror that I thought it would be. Most of the book sets up the ski outing of the father and son with the father’s business partners. Really, not much happens and there is a lot of jumps back in time to going out with his mother and sister. I get that the author is either already knowledgeable about backcountry skiing or did his research but there is a lot of time spent educating the reader.
Finally, when shit goes down, I thought we would get to the creature horror that attracted me to this book or even a fight for survival that the description leads us to. But… nothing. There is some survival work done and despite all the survival instructions from earlier it’s not them against nature battle. The most interesting parts of the book happen at the end but its quick and lacks tension.
This was not the creature in the woods horror that I thought it would be. Most of the book sets up the ski outing of the father and son with the father’s business partners. Really, not much happens and there is a lot of jumps back in time to going out with his mother and sister. I get that the author is either already knowledgeable about backcountry skiing or did his research but there is a lot of time spent educating the reader.
Finally, when shit goes down, I thought we would get to the creature horror that attracted me to this book or even a fight for survival that the description leads us to. But… nothing. There is some survival work done and despite all the survival instructions from earlier it’s not them against nature battle. The most interesting parts of the book happen at the end but its quick and lacks tension.