the cabin at the end of the world book review

Leonard pays close attention to the time. They claim that the world will end, event by event, unless they choose someone of the three to sacrifice.Ĭabin at the End of the World is framed as a gigantic bottle episode, with Eric and Andrew strapped to chairs in center of the cabin as Leonard, persistent but calm, explains the dire nature of the situation: They must choose, and it must be a willing sacrifice. These four strangers: Leonard, Redmond, Sabrina, and Adriane, fight their way into the cabin occupied by Wen and her two fathers, referred to in the novel as Daddy Eric and Daddy Andrew. She smartly sits in the front yard of their cabin and collects grasshoppers when a hulking man in a pristine white dress shirt, followed by three more strangers’ intent on getting into the small cabin. Wen is a seven-year-old girl who is introduced within the first pages of the novel.

What the plot line lacked for in clarity, the story picked up in characterization. Paul Tremblay’s 2018 novel The Cabin at the End of the World introduces a cast of characters teaming with motivations unknown until the very last pages of the book, and even then, actions are questioned, and losses are pondered. Four have forced their way in with slapdash weapons, claiming that the world will come to an abrupt end if a decision of sacrifice is not made. Just the company of each other and the calm of nature around them. Three were meant to be there and had rented it out for a week of disconnected bonding time. This is a novel with the heart and tone of The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (2006), but will also appeal to fans of Ruth Ware, Josh Malerman, and Joe Hill.Seven people linger within the walls of a quaint cabin bordering a lake. What follows is an extremely intense, anxiety-inducing thriller that puts the family in mortal danger while forcing them to tackle a universal dilemma-is one life worth that of seven billion others? Alternating between unreliable narrators, Tremblay captures the intense emotional struggle, especially in flashbacks into the lives of the odds-defying family of Wen, Andrew, and Eric, while dread and terror permeate every sentence. They have come to this secluded place with their menacing and crude weapons to stop the world from ending, and Wen and her dads are the key to humanity’s survival.

While catching grasshoppers on the front lawn, she encounters Leonard, a large man in a white button-down shirt, who asks for help convincing her dads to let him and his friends into their home. Wen is almost eight years old, on vacation with her two dads, Andrew and Eric, on an isolated lake in New Hampshire. Tremblay ( Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, 2016) is back with another thought-provoking, page-turning horror novel.

The cabin at the end of the world book review