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A review by therivingtonreader
This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? No
2.0
This was very middle of the road for me. I'm pretty bummed out that I didn't love it because after I heard it was inspired by the Dyatlov pass incident, I was basically foaming at the mouth to read it.
There were a lot of pretty tense moments that were good, and lots of gore, but overall it felt repetitive. It was mostly about Dylan, Clay, Luke, and Sylvia wandering in the woods and then realizing they couldn't leave. And reading about how the characters held back vomit or had bile in their throats or threw up at a sight/smell happened so many times it got old by the end. I get it, it's gross 🙃
I have quite a few other thoughts about this book but honestly I don't really care to type them out atm so that's all for now 😂
There were a lot of pretty tense moments that were good, and lots of gore, but overall it felt repetitive. It was mostly about Dylan, Clay, Luke, and Sylvia wandering in the woods and then realizing they couldn't leave. And reading about how the characters held back vomit or had bile in their throats or threw up at a sight/smell happened so many times it got old by the end. I get it, it's gross 🙃
I have quite a few other thoughts about this book but honestly I don't really care to type them out atm so that's all for now 😂