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dkamada's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
novi's review against another edition
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
4.0
The beginning of this book feels like The Guest List, it's FILLED with unlikable characters, jerks and bullies of startup people that are DEFINITELY into NFT, and one of the POV is from the host that takes care of the place, Erin. The book is a bit more tolerable because her POV. She's the reader's source of comfort, even though we still can't trust anyone yet.
I don't think the pace was very fast as I was hoping for, but it was steady. I was never bored but it's not that I couldn't put it down either. But the climax was really good. I was legit scared. It was really tense. And I think it did the "show don't tell" really well in revealing the twist. The twist unfurled slowly one by one. That part was so so good.
The book also has a lot of skiing and snow descriptions/movements and lingo. And as a tropical child I'm just like...what is this I don't even care. I read them but they're just a bunch of words, nothing got in my brain. But I could still follow the plot.
Even though it's set in chalet in the middle of snow, this book didn't feel cozy at all to me. Shari Lapena's An Unwanted Guest has similar setting and that book was cozier than this.
The ending was a bit long for me. Well I guess they were epilogues. Quite long epilogues. It was fine, but honestly I didn't really care.I was actually more concerned about if people will believe that Erin wasn't guilty, because there were no other witness, and the text that Liz sent could be incriminating. But the author doesn't seem to want to focus on the legal processing of all that and just wrapped everything up nicely. Which was fine.
I don't think the pace was very fast as I was hoping for, but it was steady. I was never bored but it's not that I couldn't put it down either. But the climax was really good. I was legit scared. It was really tense. And I think it did the "show don't tell" really well in revealing the twist. The twist unfurled slowly one by one. That part was so so good.
The book also has a lot of skiing and snow descriptions/movements and lingo. And as a tropical child I'm just like...what is this I don't even care. I read them but they're just a bunch of words, nothing got in my brain. But I could still follow the plot.
Even though it's set in chalet in the middle of snow, this book didn't feel cozy at all to me. Shari Lapena's An Unwanted Guest has similar setting and that book was cozier than this.
The ending was a bit long for me. Well I guess they were epilogues. Quite long epilogues. It was fine, but honestly I didn't really care.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Gaslighting