Promised so much... and the Cabin at the End of the World almost delivered...
Title:- The Cabin at the End of the World.
Author:- Paul Tremblay
You can buy The Cabin at the End of the World here
I chose the Cabin at the End of the World because I wanted an easy book to read on holiday... but what I got was a deluge of blood, gore, intrigue and a good deal of razor wire tension! Paul Tremblay left me exhausted, exhilarated, questioning everything in my make up, but I hate to say it a tiny bit of me was left needing more...
The Cabin at the End of the World starts during a family holiday between Andrew and Eric, and Wen their adopted daughter. Set in a lakeside cabin, Wen is playing in the garden catching grasshoppers when a huge beast of man named Leonard turns up unexpectedly. Despite his meaty size, he wins over Wen almost immediately, but throws an absolute bomb into the mix, stating that 'What will happen is not your fault...' then instantly, joined with his associates armed to the teeth with dangerous weaponry with statements on oncoming apocalyse tries to gain access to the cabin... what would you do if you were behind the door???
I cannot deny that I enjoyed the Cabin at the End of the World. You really love the small family network almost straight away. Wen is inquisitive and needs to know everything, and her dads- Eric and Andrew- are very much in love but different in their own ways. Tremblay creates the loving family atmosphere to help engineer shock and tension that builds throughout the book. We invest alot of feeling for the family, but particularly pleasing was the fact that Paul Tremblay does not make a big issue regarding the fact that the couple are homosexual- other authors would have rammed the issue down the reader's throat.
I am not sure if the next point is pleasing or not, but the amount of gore and blood and disaster featured is something I have not read before- the sheer scale, gravity and explicity is mind blowing! I would to say it reminded me of Irvine Welsh's granular writing, but Welsh simply does not achieve the gutsy, gorey writing that Paul Tremblay does!
As much as I enjoyed the Cabin at the End of the World, I cannot help thinking that the villains, Leonard, Sabrina, Adriane and Redmond, are not quite evil and nasty enough, and can almost be considered as the 'good guys' who are just following instructions from visions. Tremblay could have given the villains more depth with a horrible streak.
Despite Tremblay's expert building of the tension throughout the book, I do feel that he let the tension go far too far away from the right moment, which made the ending a little disappointing. The final 60 pages lacked the same vibrance of the rest of the book.
Overall:- 3/5- ok, but not good enough to recommend.
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Title:- The Cabin at the End of the World.
Author:- Paul Tremblay
You can buy The Cabin at the End of the World here
I chose the Cabin at the End of the World because I wanted an easy book to read on holiday... but what I got was a deluge of blood, gore, intrigue and a good deal of razor wire tension! Paul Tremblay left me exhausted, exhilarated, questioning everything in my make up, but I hate to say it a tiny bit of me was left needing more...
The Cabin at the End of the World starts during a family holiday between Andrew and Eric, and Wen their adopted daughter. Set in a lakeside cabin, Wen is playing in the garden catching grasshoppers when a huge beast of man named Leonard turns up unexpectedly. Despite his meaty size, he wins over Wen almost immediately, but throws an absolute bomb into the mix, stating that 'What will happen is not your fault...' then instantly, joined with his associates armed to the teeth with dangerous weaponry with statements on oncoming apocalyse tries to gain access to the cabin... what would you do if you were behind the door???
I cannot deny that I enjoyed the Cabin at the End of the World. You really love the small family network almost straight away. Wen is inquisitive and needs to know everything, and her dads- Eric and Andrew- are very much in love but different in their own ways. Tremblay creates the loving family atmosphere to help engineer shock and tension that builds throughout the book. We invest alot of feeling for the family, but particularly pleasing was the fact that Paul Tremblay does not make a big issue regarding the fact that the couple are homosexual- other authors would have rammed the issue down the reader's throat.
I am not sure if the next point is pleasing or not, but the amount of gore and blood and disaster featured is something I have not read before- the sheer scale, gravity and explicity is mind blowing! I would to say it reminded me of Irvine Welsh's granular writing, but Welsh simply does not achieve the gutsy, gorey writing that Paul Tremblay does!
As much as I enjoyed the Cabin at the End of the World, I cannot help thinking that the villains, Leonard, Sabrina, Adriane and Redmond, are not quite evil and nasty enough, and can almost be considered as the 'good guys' who are just following instructions from visions. Tremblay could have given the villains more depth with a horrible streak.
Despite Tremblay's expert building of the tension throughout the book, I do feel that he let the tension go far too far away from the right moment, which made the ending a little disappointing. The final 60 pages lacked the same vibrance of the rest of the book.
Overall:- 3/5- ok, but not good enough to recommend.
Have you got a book you would like me to review? If so, get in touch through the comments below or email on stevenlomax1984@gmail.com
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