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Title: Tedious waste of time
Review: For the life of me I can't see how anyone could find this book 'intense', much less scary. The plot twists are minor league and telegraphed twenty pages in advance. You can see the ending coming almost from the moment they arrive at the ruins, and the only reason I kept reading was the belief that such a highly praised writer would never stoop to such an obvious cliche.The characters all spend a lot of time thinking back on previous times of their lives, the kind of stuff that is interesting to yourself but no one else. One character spends the biggest part of the book breathing in "rasping, phlegmy" gasps. The vine is really kind of goofy when you get right down to it, as well as inconsistent -- it might as well be yelling "Feed me!". There are a couple of gruesome scenes that feel shoe-horned in to an otherwise mundane story. I don't mind that there isn't a final explanation for it all, but there is so much left unsaid and unexplored that it feels more like lazy storytelling.
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