Run on Red

DNF @ page 35. This was supposed to be an awesome suspense thriller “scary” story but by page 35, I was done. What year is this book set in? They reference My Space and Facebook as if they were both used in the same decade. And from page 1, what blog post is 8 pages long??? There's a janky old boombox on the dash of the car? Is this the 1980's? Again, what decade is this story set in?? The dialogue is extremely repetitive. The author makes sure we know that the car they are driving is a piece of shit. Over and over again. Even the clock on the dash doesn't work. (Eye roll). We get it! This doesn't propel the story for me by trying to over-show not tell the reader. 

The author refuses to use the word “car” in place to Volvo. Did I mention that the author wants us to know that they are driving a Volvo??? The word Volvo appears in this 200ish page book 95 times! So many times! When threatening to throw yourself out of a vehicle, would you say “...I'm hurling myself out of the Volvo”? No one talks like that! You don't talk about a vehicle you're in as it's make, you would say “car” or “truck”, etc. 

And who drives an hour out in the middle of nowhere to go to a party and somehow the bad guys are able to appear out of nowhere, no matter how many times you get away?