Kin
Ratings7
Average rating3.4
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Ratings7
Average rating3.4
On a hot summer day in Elkwood, Alabama, Claire Lambert staggers naked, wounded, and half-blind away from the nightmare that claimed her friends and left her the sole survivor. Even as she prays for rescue, the killers (a family of cannibalistic lunatics) are closing in. A soldier returns from Iraq to be told his brother was among those murdered. A waitress, trapped in an abusive relationship gets an unexpected visit that sends her back on the road to a past she has spent years trying to outrun. Together a dream of vengeance will be realized as grief and rage turn good people into cold-blooded murderers and force alliances among strangers.
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The writing was far too poetic for my taste for a novel of this nature. Gory and outright disgusting at times, it was an good revenge tale.
I was rooting for you! I really like the first section of the book and thought I would like it until the end but then it got to the middle part and I completely lost my interest and was not into it at all. The writing felt so tedious and I struggled connecting to the story. The multiple character POV in this one didn't work for me because there's too many of them and I don't really care about the other characters except maybe for Claire and the cannibalistic family. I would've enjoyed it if the author explored a bit more of Claire's thoughts being the only survivor and also Luke's guilt that is slowly eating him. I read this while listening to the audiobook and props to the narrator because if not for him, I would've DNFed this.
I'm quite conflicted on this one as there were times where I was completely invested and others where the pace slowed down so much and meandered. Perhaps I'm not a fan of a character study type of story, or maybe the writing just isn't for me but it felt overwritten and could have been trimmed down to a novella and had the same impact.
