y is a conceit that has actually made our lives smaller. And the magical convenience of giving over all knowledge and expertise to a handheld device is ultimately what will contribute to our end. Yep just a little light reading lol 30:T49b,I think this was just not for me. This one has been on my tbr for a while and have heard quite mixed reviews, but ultimately picked it up to read before watching the movie.

Things I didn’t particularly like: the overt sexualization of everything just didn’t seem particularly necessary, the themes seemed a bit overstated and didn’t allow room for the reader to use their own deductive reasoning, and the resolution to the story was not very satisfying to me

Things I enjoyed: the authors ability to build tension and dread, while we get a glimpse of “all knowing” narration, we are for the most part limited to our 6 characters knowledge of the situation. This book does have things to say about race and class, and the complexity of human morality during bad situations

I am still not sure where I stand on the narration style - jumping from character to character works really well in some moments and is confusing/jarring in others. This was a style I really enjoyed in Beartown, for example, but not sure if it hit the same with this one.

Probably closer to a 2.5/2.75 - this book wasn’t bad per se just not my style I think!31:T50b,2/5

The best part of this book is the beginning. The descriptions of this family’s middle class vacation is so familiar that in a way it is comforting, and I wouldn’t mind reading an entire novel where they continue their trip as planned. Instead, there is a blackout, and as the reader you suspect something intense on the horizon to shock or stupify you.

Instead, you get a hazy hypothetical with prose that doesn’t really say anything. I was so disappointed by the last 3/4 of this book, I can’t believe I even finished it. Some of these sentences are so abstract that you read an entire pag

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