Karen’s Reviews > The Book of Accidents > Status Update

This last chapter should have been labeled “Git A Rope”.

Tangled web of deceits, depressions, and tiny dollops of information dribbled through many pages.

No, I’m not gobbling up this book.
I would call it savoring, but not feeling it that way.
Maybe the hook didn’t set and Wendig is having trouble reeling me in easily.

I sometimes think Sir Anthony Hopkins should be narrating this book…in his Hannibal Lecter voice.

There’s almost a Jake (The Dark Tower) or Jack (The Talisman) quality to the Oliver trapped in the coal tunnel with weird Eli. I don’t like giving away storyline. Take this as an enticement 😊
Kudos to Chuck Wendig❣️

One of the most profound expressions I’ve found in this book, from chapter 47, titled True Dark…and it is, true dark, that is:

“The dark felt total and true—less an open space where no light reached and more a physical object with weight and presence.”

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The Book of Accidents
Chuck Wendig

Stringing the reader along…in the nicest manner possible. Hanging in every word these kids are saying.

It’s never a good choice to ignore feminine intuition. Especially mom’s when it pertains to a child.
Never. Never.

Sliding through this book as if it was quicksand of the blackest kind.
Slow-burning, gritty, and oily dark.

Again, after the incredible intensity of those last two chapters?
I love ❤️ owls 🦉 💕