Hatchet

“Hatchet” has been on my to-read list for a long time. As I got closer to the end of 2021 and was trying to hit my reading goal for the year, it seemed like a good time to finally pick this one up.

I chose to listen to the audiobook version from the library via Libby. The audiobook is narrated by the actor, Peter Coyote. Peter's narration and the production of the audiobook are quite good.

Other than that, I cannot recommend this book, nor do I see why it's so lauded. From the beginning, the story is quite thin.

The Secret that so haunts our hero, while traumatic to a younger child, was built up and overdone. Many other reviewers have criticized the repetitiveness of this book. In some ways, some of the repetitiveness makes sense because the day-to-day life of someone stranded would be rather repetitive. Other parts of the repetitiveness seemed like padding to me capped off with an ending that was a little too convenient.