A review by octavia_cade
The Cabin in the Woods: The Official Movie Novelization by Tim Lebbon

2.0

Yeah, this isn't great. To be fair, I didn't think the film was that good either, so it would have been expecting a lot for the book to be an improvement on the source material. I just couldn't take it seriously, and characterisation in both media was paper thin. It also doesn't help that I have very little time for Lovecraftian giant monsters in general, and it's a rare author who can get me to care. (Lachlan Walter did it in We Call It Monster if you want a more intelligent look at the subject.) I end this particular story wondering why they just didn't drop a nuke down the hole, but if there's an in-universe reason why not no-one ever bothered to give it.

The book does get an extra star for the creepy description of the different types of elevator monsters, and for the lovely little Japanese schoolgirls who buggered up their sacrifice by being gentle and loving to their creepy ghost. I honestly think I'd rather have read a book about that...