KIN

I'm quite conflicted on this one as there were times where I was completely invested and others where the pace slowed down so much and meandered. Perhaps I'm not a fan of a character study type of story, or maybe the writing just isn't for me but it felt overwritten and could have been trimmed down to a novella and had the same impact.

I was rooting for you! I really like the first section of the book and thought I would like it until the end but then it got to the middle part and I completely lost my interest and was not into it at all. The writing felt so tedious and I struggled connecting to the story. The multiple character POV in this one didn't work for me because there's too many of them and I don't really care about the other characters except maybe for Claire and the cannibalistic family. I would've enjoyed it if the author explored a bit more of Claire's thoughts being the only survivor and also Luke's guilt that is slowly eating him. I read this while listening to the audiobook and props to the narrator because if not for him, I would've DNFed this.

The writing was far too poetic for my taste for a novel of this nature. Gory and outright disgusting at times, it was an good revenge tale.