the cabin at the end of the world book review

We discover quickly that she is an intelligent girl. We meet her outside collecting grasshoppers. To get its barbs into you and have you hoping for the best, Tremblay introduces us to the heart of the story: Wen. Which cycles you back to your thoughts of “what would you do?”.

Then, the further along in the book you get, and the more stuff you witness, the more you start questioning yourself. Which I think is all part of the magic Tremblay weaves, making you question the somewhat obvious solution of the four being crazy and their doomsday is not going to happen. We are constantly asking ourselves how would we act in this situation? Is one life worth more than the rest of the world? I can say I vacillated between them letting the world end or them killing someone in their little family. It ramps up the stress level and doesn’t let you rest until you get to the end. With this setup, Paul Tremblay builds a tense what-would-you-do story that never lets up. And let me tell you, it’s totally an easy mission: convince the family they need to sacrifice one of themselves to save humanity. Cue the four people with a mission to stop the end of the world. Seems like a peaceful time, right? But, this is Cabin at the End of the World, so we know there is going to be some trouble. At this cabin we find Eric and Andrew, a lovely married couple, and their adopted daughter, Wen, enjoying a nice relaxing vacation. It’s rustic, has a large front yard, and a nice back porch with a lovely view of the lake beyond. The Cabin at the End of the World is a masterpiece of terror and suspense from the fantastically fertile imagination of Paul Tremblay.There is a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Thus begins an unbearably tense, gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are entwined.

As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: “Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault.” Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. 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. Paul Tremblay’s terrifying twist to the home invasion novel-inspiration for the upcoming major motion picture from Universal Pictures

The cabin at the end of the world book review