Hooked on Books discussion

Members Starting the BR: Jenny, Angie, Sammy, Judith
Challenge: Book Quest Adventures
Book: The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

Anyone is free to join in this Buddy Read! Happy Reading!

Okay, I ended up starting this and then just kinda of blitzing through it.

This really wasn't the book for me. It was an interesting premise but, it's just not the type of book I enjoy reading. Probably didn't help that the state of the US has me in a mood.

The ending was really unsatisfying for me as well.

Author is clearly talented but just not the book for me.

I reread this one today. I liked the first reading better, but I still really liked it.

As far as the ending goes, (view spoiler)[There are times I like an ambiguous ending, and this was one of them. I think if the author let us know whether the story was real or not, it would have diminished what that family went through. (hide spoiler)]

The movie version, which isn't bad, does make things clearer.

I just can't imagine what it would have been like to go through something as completely weird, and ultimately plausible (maybe) and entirely scary as what they went through.

I though the author made me feel what they were going through very well.

I do get that it was maybe a hard read with the world being so entirely screwed up as it is now.

I'm looking forward to this one, but it's not going to be available to me until the 21st, apparently. I'm just glad it was one of the very few books my library actually stocks! 😆

Got to say though, so far I've been having much more success with recent horror novels than I have recent fantasy. There has been an occasional good one, but on the whole recent fantasy is putting me off the genre altogether!

OK, what should I be avoiding then?

Depends. I don't think most of them were bad books perse, they just weren't my cup of tea. mostly other people love them. And it kills me that most of those I haven't enjoyed have been by women. It's mostly the tone - overblown/emo - and the fact that the MCs tend to be complete morons most of the time.

Think a lot of Sarah J Maas, Addie LaRue (oh did I hate that book with a passion!) Kingdom of the Wicked, A Deadly Education, books by Holly Black, Legendborn, Alix E harrow's books...

All extremely popular, and all of them just... UGH! to me 😆

I should probably just stick to classic fantasy (and Brandon sanderson, lol)

I'm very glad that none of those are on my TBR. I think. I tried Maas once, and didn't like it. Same with Black.
I have been enjoying the afrofuturism fantasy books more of late. Most of those are not on the best seller list though.

I've read some good ones of those, though mostly they've been sci-fi, not fantasy.

Just don't get me started on The Fifth Season. I have serious issues with second person, present tense narration outside of CYOA books! 😆