![]() ![]() Wales Interactive are back once more, with Good Gate Media and Alex Lightman, to bring us Night Book. From the excellent The Complex, through more recent titles like Five Dates and I Saw Black Clouds, we’ve come a long way from the early 90’s efforts. Face-palm.As I’ve noted before, FMV games are getting quite the renaissance. I don't know what I hated more, the entire plot twist or the fact that Charlie wasn't murdered by her boyfriend when they first met because he could tell "SHE WASN'T LIKE OTHER GIRLS'. But I talked myself out of it because surely it wouldn't be that obvious/stupid, right? Wrong. I saw the twist of Charlie's boyfriend being the Campus Killer in roughly the first 20 pages. Need I actually say anything about this? It's dumb. Yup, the guy who essentially kidnapped her. Extra plot twist! Charlie sells the movie rights to her experience and ends up married to Josh. It ends with Charlie and her boyfriend (well, I guess ex-boyfriend by that point) driving off a bridge into water and Charlie drowns him. Plot twist! Charlie's boyfriend is actually the Campus Killer. Meanwhile, Charlie's boyfriend from college is trailing Charlie as he thinks she's in danger from Josh. Charlie, not yet knowing this, stabs Josh and runs to the diner for help but naturally gets drugged, taken to the home of the woman, and beat up. The woman blames Charlie for the death of her daughter as Charlie left her at a bar the night she was murdered. Josh actually isn't the Campus Killer (shocker, I know) but he has been hired by the mother of Charlie's dead friend to basically kidnap Charlie and take her to the diner where the woman works. So, the heck was with that ending? If you have no interest in reading this novel but want to know the plot twist, I've got you. Good idea, absolutely terrible execution. It's actually quite sad, as I think Survive The Night had the protentional to be great. I've read better Twilight FanFiction (not trashing on FanFiction, I read way too much of it). ![]() But this was actually meant to be taken seriously.? I'm flabbergasted how someone wrote this, let alone how it got published. If this book was instead a parody, I could maybe get on board. Just about everything in this book was unrealistic. And it had the one thing you absolutely can't look past when it comes to thrillers. Huge info dumps of things we really didn't need to know. It had a major case of telling rather than showing. Some paragraphs had a word repeated dozens of times. It felt like a first draft that badly needed editing. My other main issue with the novel, was the writing itself. But that didn't even remotely happen, which is such a wasted opportunity. Based on the premise of the book, I assumed that her movie knowledge would end up coming into play with the cat/mouse dynamic of Josh and Charlie. It made Charlie seem even stupider, which was no easy feat given her entire personality. If you say "You're gonna need a bigger boat" she'll instantly know what movie it's from! Eye-roll. You know, the movies basically everyone with a TV are aware of. It didn't add anything to the story besides making it hard for us, the readers, to grasp what was going on.īeing a film student, Charlie likes to flaunt her knowledge of movies, such as Hitchcock, Star Wars, Jaws. I get that Riley Sager was going for the unreliable narrator trope, but this seems like the stupidest way of doing it. Charlie has a problem with seeing movies inside her head (? I know.), making it hard for her to know whether what she sees is reality or not. I could feel my brain cells die from reading her POV. She was insufferable, cliché, and a complete dumbass. Charlie's entire character was the epitome of the 'not like other girls' trope. I have so many problems with this book, but where to start? Is she stuck in a car with a possible murderer? But during their roadtrip, Charlie starts to suspect Josh of not being who he says he is. Needing a ride, she agrees to accompany Josh Baxter, a man she's never met before. After her best friend gets murdered by the Campus Killer (yup, that's what they call them), Charlie decides that she's had enough with school and wants to go home to live with her Grandma. ![]()
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