College Students! discussion

We have one thread for each book as now Goodreads has made a spoiler tag that you can use to put before anything that is a spoiler. Use your discretion as to what would be a pretty big spoiler and label it. Please put up to what page the spoiler is for.

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*Take out the spaces in both of the spoiler tag.

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Discuss away....

I Am Pilgrim is one of the first novels in its genre that I have read. It was very dark and intense and quite literally had me on the edge of my seat for many of the 700 pages. At times for me it was a little too dark... (view spoiler)[ Despite being totally engrossed, the scene where the Saracen cuts out that mans eyes in an SUV was a little too much for me and I found myself skipping over paragraphs to not have to read too in depth about what was going on. (hide spoiler)] I actually found myself starting to read another lighter book on top of this one just to kind of unwind and de-stress after some of the more intense and thrilling parts of the book.

Despite the fact that it was over 700 pages, I found myself flying through this book and finished it rather quickly. The storyline was a complex web, which at times was hard to imagine that all of the loose ends would be tied up, but it all came together rather brilliantly at the end.

The only loose end that I didn't think was sufficiently tied up was (view spoiler)[ the relationship between Scott and his foster mother. I couldn't understand his foster mothers aversion and aggression towards him and I don't feel that it was ever completely explained. The scene where Grace tells Bill that it isn't working out with Scott and that she would like to "return" him was rather odd and really only skimmed the surface of her true feelings and didn't explain motivation behind those feelings.

I also would have liked a little more insight into what happened with Scott and his biological mother. (hide spoiler)]

Overall, I really liked this book and I would recommend it to others with the advice to read it when you're in the mood for a dark and complex thriller.

I'm interested to see if anyone else read this book and/or what their take on it was!

Now I definitely need to up this on my TBR list. I love the genre and "dark and complex thriller" is perfect. I don't care too much for the cheesy and/or light mysteries.