6/12/2023 0 Comments The ritual nevillMost books are variations on themes but the ones that you remember, and the ones that are the most succesful, are those that make the journey the most enjoyable. I think it is fair to say that a bunch of friends, lost in a forest and being stalked by something unwordly has been covered before but then again what hasn't. When an ill-judged shortcut leaves them lost, hungry and surrounded by forest untouched for millenia, they discover that their nightmare has only just begun. But as is so often the case, the common ground has simply been lost, and so tensions begin to rise. In The Ritual, four old university friends set out into the Scandinavian wilderness, to escape the problems of their lives and reconnect. For more reasons please read the full review here. Why did I enjoy Apartment 16 so much? Well, for a start, not since reading Stephen King's It did a book managed to instill such a feeling of fear and disquiet in me. The Ritual had this effect on me for one reason - Apartment 16. Adam Nevill's horror debut was one of my favourite books of 2010 and the very reason that I started reading his latest book the moment it dropped through my letterbox. So when a book arrives that rekindles those feelings it is something to cherish. Reviewing hundreds of books can leave one a little jaded with the excitement that precedes the starting of a new novel less often experienced.
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