Rezension

This snowball did not hit me

Snowball - Gregory Bastianelli

Snowball
von Gregory Bastianelli

Bewertet mit 2 Sternen

Great beginning, but a let down towards the end...

So much potential, such a good start, but the ending felt rather disappointing. The first half of the book was slow, but pretty good, a group of people being stranded on the motorway due to a snowstorm. Soon, they gather in a mobile home and start telling their worst winter memory. Then terror starts creeping in, as they realize they heard and saw things from these stories just outside... What an exciting idea I thought, already fantasizing about the past haunting the present, the travelers meeting a grisly fate one by one. But then, another explanation for the weird coincidences turned up, and I did not like it at all. Suddenly, there were too many lines of action mixed up for my liking, making for a rough ride rather than a smooth flow of the story, despite some rather fascinating details. I'm sure this is a very personal opinion and other readers may see things differently and enjoy the book more than I did, so don't let my review prevent you from giving it a try. But for me the plot just did not work out as expected.

(Thanks to Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for a copy of the book, all opinions are my own)