![]() ![]() They had their flaws, as we all do, and as all good fictional characters should. However, even despite Hutch being the one to try and keep everything civil and together, he shared a particular shallowness with Luke in regard to continuously calling the other two “fatties”. ![]() The ones who picked on another out of a jealous attempt to hide their own crumbling lives, the one with obvious commitment issues and lack of purpose, and lastly, the one with the level head. I didn’t even find the characters entirely likeable, but not because they were poorly written – on the contrary, they were painfully realistic. If not for the very drastic change in story in the second half, I’d have rated it five stars. The writing was a main factor in creating such responses so darkly atmospheric with sentences that conveyed so much, from every stab of fear to every thread of hope. Even so, I’m not usually all that affected by horror in general, and even though I didn’t feel terrified or frightened, I certainly felt a sense of unease and foreboding. Even to imagine getting lost in such an ancient maze of untouched forest, where daylight itself refuses to penetrate, definitely makes my skin crawl. ![]() I didn’t know what exactly to expect at first, but the whole “man versus nature” aspect appealed to me, and thus I found myself thoroughly impressed with the initial direction of the plot. Collecting dust on my bookshelf, amongst the other two hundred unread books (more or less), for a few years now, I finally decided to pick this one up and give it a go. ![]()
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