AS IF WE NEEDED ONE MORE REASON TO NEVER GO IN THE WOODS.....BQ CRINGES THROUGH 'THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD'

The Cabin At The End Of The World by Paul Tremblay (2018)    Like everybody else who've tried to describe this book, we dread figuring out where to start.......

             And BQ visitors well know how we loathe writing any kind of detailed plot descriptions of books and movies........

              Okay, here goes. We'll take a wild stab at the set-up........in no way would we go beyond that point.......cause discovering where this craziness will lead is the entire reason for staying with the book.....

               2 gay dads and their adopted, adorable 8 year old Chinese girl.......vacationing in a remote cabin in the New Hampshire woods.......

               Along come 4 home invaders.......who've shared a vision of a worldwide apocalypse.....due to happen at any moment......

                Home invaders visions also tell them that the oncoming end-of-days can only be halted if one of the gay dads or their cute little girl offer themselves up as a human sacrifice........

                Horror, gore and heartbreak follows.........wrapped up in a final few pages you may find either strangely satisfying or a stupid, cheating cop-out.

                There's no denying it.....once the premise hooks you, consider yourself hooked till the bitter end.  One thing we definitely despised......in the heat of things, Tremblay grinds the action to a halt with voluminous, tedious backstory.  (We felt more than tempted to not even bother to skim that stuff, just to skip it altogether.......)

                We understand why Stephen King got a kick out of it........it reads like a sort of real-life dark fairy tale told around a campfire.......to scare the crap out of grownups.  Of course it's ridiculous, unbelievable and couldn't possibly unfold the way it does in this book.

                Or could it?

               3 stars (***) for this terrifying woodsy cabin........you may not like or agree with what you're reading.......but we dare you to try to put it down once you've read a few chapters.....For us, that makes for a super hot summer read.....