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Title: The good: refreshingly simple plot. The bad: unsurprising and dull.
Review: I believe that I have permanently burned myself out on horror. The Ruins came highly recommended-- author is supposed to be good, the book itself is supposed to be smart. One of the best entries in the field at the moment, supposedly.But, sad to say, I really wasn't impressed. Although there is something to be said for the kind of pleasantly retro simplicity of the plot, that's nearly the biggest praise that I can muster. In general, I found the characters irritating and the plot predictable. And while the simplicity *was* nice, it simply did not carry 509 pages. By the end, I was seriously bored.But the biggest crime? Once I understood the set up, not one single thing surprised me about the book. A death sentence, really.I would give this one a miss. Anyone got any recommendations for horror out there which I would actually like, or should I give up on the genre completely?
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