Horror is hit or miss with me, and usually it misses. I picked this up after seeing mentions of how very scary this book is. By the time she runs to tell her parents about the man outside, it's too late. But they've barely settled in when a man shows up on foot and starts a conversation with Wen, who is in the front yard catching grasshoppers. It takes place over the course of couple days, and I was very anxious to see how everything would turn out.Īndrew and Eric take their eight-year-old daughter and go on vacation in an isolated cabin on a scenic lake in New Hampshire they're anticipating nothing more than time to unwind, to live without wifi or their phones, to let Wen goof around outside without constant supervision. Throughout the book, the reader is left wondering if the world really is about to be destroyed, or are the four strangers crazy. Then four strangers arrive and hold them hostage, telling Eric and Andrew that they have a choice to make, one that will save the world from the impending apocalypse. The three of them are vacationing in an isolated cabin, with no cell reception. And although not as perfect as Wen believes, they are still good and loving parents. She idolizes her parents, Eric and Andrew. It felt like an authentic 7 year old's voice to me. I love that we are inside her mind for the first chapter. I was able to get it from my library and eagerly began reading.įirst off, the character Wen is adorable. So I was very excited when I heard about The Cabin at the End of the World.
It was one of my favorite books of the year. I read A Head Full of Ghosts last summer and loved it. Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, "None of what’s going to happen is your fault". Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.
Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King’s Misery, Ruth Ware’s In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum’s cult hit The Girl Next Door. “A tremendous book―thought-provoking and terrifying, with tension that winds up like a chain. The Cabin at the End of the World is Tremblay’s personal best.
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