Occasionally seemed a little bit unnecessary. BUT There is lot of pretty graphic description in there, which I don't usually mind and would not usually comment on as such. It was certainly a very good story that kept me listening.
Not sure I would want to say this was a book I "enjoyed". At first I wasn't too keen on Corey Brill's semi-monotone narration, but it soon added to the creepy feel of the story and his portrayal of certain characters was chilling.Ī bit disturbing, but hard to stop listening. I get that they were supposed to give the listener a better understanding about how the circumstances on the island came to be (and some of them were good) but many were just outright tedious and took away from the main story at times. I wasn't too fond of the interviews, logs, and police documents that were interspersed between chapters though.
At some points, the author delves into the mind-workings of a sociopathic character which I found to be just as disturbing as the main events of the story. It was interesting to know what each person was feeling and thinking and it also meant there was no way to know who would live or die. I liked that there was no main character in the book and that every character got their own time in the narration spotlight. It's highly disturbing but well written and hard to put down. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who can't handle animal cruelty (there is a fair amount of it) but this was by no means a bad book. This was a great horror story which reminded me of The Lord Of The Flies mixed with a dash of Dreamcatcher. No possible escape from the elements, the infected. One by one, the boys will do things no person could ever imagine.Īnd so it begins. Within his body is a bioengineered nightmare, a horror that spreads faster than fear. He is shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry - a man in unspeakable torment who exposes Tim and the boys to something far more frightening than any ghost story. An unexpected intruder, stumbling upon their campsite like a wild animal. But for some reason, he can’t shake the feeling that something strange is in the air this year. For the most part, they all get along and are happy to be there - which makes Scoutmaster Tim’s job a little easier.
There’s Kent, one of the most popular kids in school Ephraim and Max, also well-liked and easygoing then there’s Newt the nerd and Shelley the odd duck. Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip - a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfre.
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