Qing
Overall: C-
If you’re in the mood to read a book where you hate every main character—and possibly yourself for finishing it—Outside is for you. I will never understand the premise of “friends” who clearly despise each other deciding to reunite (You can skip your high school reunion, people. Nothing good happens there either).
Gunlaugur and Daniel were obviously meant to be terrible, but I think we were supposed to root for the other two? If so, that was a flop. The setting is genuinely intriguing, though—the snowstorm isolation works, and the mysterious man just chilling (pun intended) in the corner had me curious. Unfortunately, the ending was rushed, implausible, and nowhere near as clever as it thought it was.
Overall: C-
If you’re in the mood to read a book where you hate every main character—and possibly yourself for finishing it—Outside is for you. I will never understand the premise of “friends” who clearly despise each other deciding to reunite (You can skip your high school reunion, people. Nothing good happens there either).
Gunlaugur and Daniel were obviously meant to be terrible, but I think we were supposed to root for the other two? If so, that was a flop. The setting is genuinely intriguing, though—the snowstorm isolation works, and the mysterious man just chilling (pun intended) in the corner had me curious. Unfortunately, the ending was rushed, implausible, and nowhere near as clever as it thought it was.