Review: The Cavern by Alister Hodge (Spoiler-Free)

I wanted to be TERRIFIED. But unfortunately, I was just bored.

I think this premise had so much potential. I appreciate the research that went into the cave diving/spelunking and I enjoyed those aspects, but I just thought there were too many characters for such a short book. And I didn't feel any suspense because we knew straight from the cover alone that we were dealing with a monster. I think if I saw this as a movie I would have been cowering in my seat, but as a book it just didn't thrill me.

(I also did just watch Barbarian right before reading this, so maybe my enjoyment of that hampered my enjoyment of this...)

Hear my full thoughts in my reading vlog!

👻 monster mash readathon 👻

1. little monsters

2. the cavern