The Wolf Road

Gave up on this one at 24%.
Right now I am just kind of busy, I am still on the last days of things before my Christmas break, things are just a mess and I'm tired, which means my attention wanders. I have to be here and there, buy this, make that, remember, study, do everything.
This book did not work with that. It's just so slow and (to me) boring that I couldn't concentrate on it. I felt no willingness to pick it up again when I could be preparing for my last test of the year or after 8 hours of grunt lab work. Something about the whole mood of it just made me feel like I could not justify spending any more time with it. I feel this year of reading was pretty good in my case and I am not going to kill my momentum with ending up in a rut during the last couple of months. I want to finish the year on a high note.

There isn't much to say. In a post-apocalyptic place a young girl is raised by a mysterious guy in a forest. He ends up turning out to be a serial killer, so our girl runs away to find her real parents. At the point where I gave up she was making her way through long stretches of not much, really. Hunting and all.

I expect this to be thrilling, to have crazy adventures, a fast pace, just a lot of well-crafted suspense and that sense of nervousness that I enjoy. A bit of pressure. Instead of that I got a story about this girl who is not very educated and her way of speaking makes the extremely slow and boring proceeding feel even less fluid. The whole thing was like a march through this rough, dry terrain where I feel like I am losing hope every single minute.

I did not like it and I did not want to know more. Boring.

Good night and I'm hitting the road now. Not the wolf one.