A review by mjamm
These Nameless Things by Shawn Smucker

2.0

I’ll be honest. I could not finish this book. I was 75% through and was still having a hard time getting into it. I couldn’t figure out if this was a dystopian story, allegorical, or fantasy - or something else altogether. I found the storyline slow. I love when a plot keeps you in suspense and slowly draws out the mystery. But in this case, I found the suspense too drawn out and there wasn’t really much action. The characters kept talking about doing something but that’s all there was. Even that far into the book, I still don’t know what they were trying to escape from or what they were afraid of on the mountain. And that elusive brother Adam. Was he the good guy? The bad guy? The fall guy? Who knows. We hadn’t met him yet. I rarely find a book that I can’t finish but unfortunately this was one. Maybe I’ll give it another chance someday. Maybe I missed the point completely and would love if someone else could enlighten me,