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What does Nick Cutter have against turtles

I'm only a quarter of the way in and I feel like an entire novel's worth of story has already happened. It's a nonstop ride.

Made it 12 minutes into the audiobook and I'm switching to the physical copy. The narrator's child voice is awful.

I dislike all of these people. I'm hoping they go up the stairs and never come down.

(Not saying they're bad characters, just unlikable people. My god.)

hoo boy what have I gotten myself into

this is not going to be a fast or easy read

So far this book is all tell and no show, with an unusual amount of over-the-top drama for the plot. Reviews said it gets violent and horrific which I'm not against, so I'll stick with it for now. But the narrative demonstrates a lot of my gripes with first person POVs.

There was a really unnecessary scene with a cat being tortured and killed in chapter 2 that I tried to skim, and I so badly wanted to DNF at that point. We get it, bad people torture and kill animals, and I'm sick of seeing it in fiction as a crutch to get that point across.

I'll keep going for now, but I am far from endeared to this story.

Definite Event Horizon versus Ghost Ship vibes, but I keep waiting for anything truly horrifying to happen.