A review by krispe22
The Lodge by Sue Watson

3.0

When you have to explain the entire resolution to the story in the epilogue, you’ve done something wrong.

It reminds me about when you need a narrator in a play for a musical, or even an improvised musical, you’ve done something wrong. same vibe!

This was a weird story, because almost everyone who did something wrong was not punished. And people who didn’t do anything wrong did get punished. During the story, I appreciate the author keeping us guessing about who we should root for, and who we should trust.

But then, after very little character development during the story, suddenly in the epilogue, we find out who the killer was. And they just wasn’t enough character development for us to find that worthy ending.

The characters were completely unlikable. I wanted nothing to do with them, and maybe that was the intention so that you really feel how terrible it is to be stuck in a lodge with these jerks.


I will definitely try another book by this author because I think if it didn’t have such awful characters, I might’ve liked it more.