I mentioned before that there were some 5-star passages and A+ dialogue scenes in this book, and there are. They are written with a competence and brilliance that I so rarely see from any other writer, and they are SO GOOD (and usually involved Madeleine). Sometimes I'd read a passage and be like, "DAMN, DAMN. !!!!!" However, from a purely objective standpoint, I do not think, with the combination of weaknesses and strengths in this book, that The Shuddering City is greater than the sum of its parts. There were certainly some awesome scenes, but they read as signs of potential, that this book COULD have been great several drafts into the future. And there were many times I was really disappointed by this. I feel like a few simple cues from an editor would have been enough to remedy the issues in this book. If you catch this issue before it gets worse, you can clean both the disk and the surrounding surface – however, this is a temporary fix and after some time they will need replacing. A brother and sister (Ryan and Jane) along with a couple or so friends get together to go stay in a cabin out in the woods that use to belong to Ryan and Jane's father to have some fun, but what they do not except is that "something" watches them from the woods and it is hungry for some fresh blood! Third, there is a narrative device seemingly lifted right out of N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season. In Jemisin's novel, I felt that storytelling was so incredibly strong and the three stories (past-past, past, and present) so skillfully interwoven that I didn't feel cheated. I can't say that about this novel. When it was revealed that half of what I'd been reading was set 50 years in the past, I felt cheated. Shinn built up expectations that the Brandon-Villette story would intertwine with the Jayla/Madeleine/Pietro/Cody story in some way. I expected all these characters to come together. Instead, in a throw-away sentence, the Brandon-Villette story just stops dead and I'm practically told to stop caring about them. (And I did.)

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Some classic examples of creature feature stories set in freezing temperatures are H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness and John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There?, which provided the basis for John Carpenter’s The Thing. You might turn to these classics each winter in the way that some people reread A Christmas Carol (or, let’s be real, rewatch The Muppet Christmas Carol) every December, but if you’re looking to add some variety to your cold-weather creature feature reading experience, then here are five of my personal favorites…This was the first Ania Ahlborn book I’ve read, and I must say I’m impressed, she seems like a fresh voice in horror fiction who writes engaging and fast-paced stories. I can see why she is talked about so often in horror groups and on booktok. Paroxysmal non-epileptic events in children: a retrospective study over a period of 10 years. J Paediatr Child Health From that moment on, the intensity and action never stop. As you learn the truth of what pursues the group of weekend travelers, the desperation of their circumstances becomes more and more clear.

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I was a fan of Ahlborn’s work prior to this, but this definitely seals the deal. I will read anything she writes! This was my first time reading this author and I enjoyed her writing style which was very good. Now, for the most part, this was a decent read but one thing that started to take me out of the horror aspect of this novel was all the relationships and dynamics between the main characters. The beginning (aside from the characterizations) started out strong, and with a healthy dose of comical sarcasm thrown in.

There is a lot about their relationships in here and I was more horrified by that than the monsters! The Adler twins, Ryan and Jane, spent a great deal of their childhood at their parent's posh ski cabin. Now that their parents are no longer together, their father has decided to sell the memorable property. A group of friends head to a isolated cabin in the Colorado mountains to go snowboarding. They were not at all prepared for what unfolded.

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Squires, John (November 23, 2016). "Rob Zombie's '31' Landing Exclusively on Shudder in December". Bloody Disgusting . Retrieved January 3, 2017.Jane, recently divorced, decides to bring along her best friend, Lauren and Sawyer brings his gloomy girlfriend, April. Jane, who dated Sawyer in high school and never got over him, isn't exactly excited about April's presence. The Shuddering” by Ania Ahlborn started out red-hot right out the gate which always makes me happy as a reader. I love horror and at first, I started to enjoy the characters and the suspense that came with what exactly was going on. Ahlborn does a nice job of building up the tension while revealing bits and pieces here and there. Also, some the decisions made by the characters were questionable, but at the same time, I think that is half the fun. I mean, is a Horror movie even enjoyable if you aren’t yelling at the screen half the time? Horror streaming platform Shudder arrives in New Zealand". New Zealand Herald. 17 August 2020. Archived from the original on 11 September 2020 . Retrieved 14 September 2020. There's something lurking in the woods, observing them, coming closer and closer to the cabin and it's hungry.