The past never rests
Im dunklen, dunklen WaldAhead: I'm reading a lot in English but never wrote a review in this language so sorry for all of my mistakes. Now to the book: a page turner, they said. A thrilling, chilling, creepy story, they promised. ...
Ahead: I'm reading a lot in English but never wrote a review in this language so sorry for all of my mistakes. Now to the book: a page turner, they said. A thrilling, chilling, creepy story, they promised. And you see, there were all of the requirements. A dark dark wood. A lonely house in this dark dark wood. Five people who couldn't be more differently if you tried. And a past between two of this people that emanates to the presence. Trails in the snow, silly games that hurt some of them, no calls to the outside world because of capped phone connections, a ouija-game, a gun, a shot in the night, blood, death and tragedy.
I was so corious to see how this would unfold. Right, this isn't a new or original approach, but you find a lot of books out there you can't laying out of hand. This is not one of them. Yes, the writing style was nice, simple and fluently, but that's it. Every time there came a touch of tension the scene ended. For this you got a lot of repeats and monologues of the main charakter, Nora. And Nora - I can't say otherwise - is a really stupid woman with the emotional maturity of a teenager. With Nora stand and fall all of the events and I have to tell you: they fall. Almost never I could comprehend her thougts, her actions, her behavior.
So what remains? Disappointment over a predictable and sometimes silly story.