The Cabin At The End Of The World by Paul Tremblay

The Cabin At The End Of The World

by Paul Tremblay

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Rating (1-5) 📘📘📘
Genre - Supernatural Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Horror, Fiction
Format - Hardcover
Pages - 244

*Amazon Blurb*

Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.
One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, "None of what’s going to happen is your fault". Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: "Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world."
Thus begins an unbearably tense, gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are entwined. The Cabin at the End of the World is a masterpiece of terror and suspense from the fantastically fertile imagination of Paul Tremblay.


*My Review* 

This book left me feeling incomplete....not like way you feel when you finished a book in a series, but like the book was written before it was fully thought thru. I will say that the author does an amazing job at describing the the scenes, but not the actual reason for what is going on in the book. I get that the "strangers" have come to the cabin to do what they have to or as they put it "what is necessary". This is what I can't get past. Why is it necessary? There was a little backstory about how they came to be together, but I either didn't follow it, don't remember it or the author failed at that point in the story. I am completely lost about the why of the story.

Wen, who I thought was going to be one of the main characters of the story after the beginning ends up seeming to be more of a space filler than anything.

Then ending also left me feeling incomplete. I mean is there going to be another book? Overall I just didn't care for this at all.