A review by jenne
The Silent Land by Graham Joyce

1.0

Ugh, I had such high hopes for this. Basically, what happens is two people are caught in an avalanche, and when they get themselves out, they find that everyone else has diasappeared, and they can't contact anyone outside the mountain village where they're staying.

Well, that sounded cool. Maybe there was an alien invasion! or a zombie epidemic! Or even maybe they're dead and it's the afterlife?

Nope, it's just that
one of the people is in a coma or something and it's all in her head. Wow. Amazing.


Other things that were not awesome about this book:
--There is almost zero character development beyond the fact that they like to ski.
--There are several cringeworthy sex scenes.
--The writing is painfully bad. Some of my "favorite" bits:
"Jake had close-cropped black hair and baby-blue peepers"
PEEPERS. Really.

"His skin was like parchment in this light, she decided, holy parchment, and his glittering blue eyes and his nut-brown eyebrows and the hint of crimson of his lips were like a monk’s illustrations on a sacred manuscript."
Then about two pages later, she addresses this holy parchment with the remark, "Your eyes look like pissholes in the snow."