![]() They so often have lousy, predictable outcomes - Ruins does a half decent job, and it could have been a good deal worse. It knowingly plays with some tropes, and does horror fans the favor of avoiding cliches at a lot of turns, and playfully neutralizing some assumptions and details with expository writing. The book is capably written, in that you do become fairly invested in the characters - and they aren't two dimensional. ![]() I'd prefer to give it a 3.5 star rating - I don't think it warrants an 80% perfect - but it was fun enough, so I rounded up. ![]() It got prime reading real estate as my early October horror novel. Someone earnestly asked me to give it another chance - so I did. I'd started the book years ago - and abandoned it when I thought it was too cheesy. A recent "best horror novels" list contained The Ruins in the top 10, and I was dubious. ![]()
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