the cabin at the end of the world book review

These people-the aforementioned Leonard, along with Redmond, Sabrina, and Adriane-initially try to talk their way into the cabin but to no avail consequently, they systematically dismantle the safeguards Eric and Andrew have hastily put in place, invading the space with archaic-looking weapons all the while professing their intent to cause no harm. There are people here and they want to come in and they want to talk to you and some of them scare me. When she is finally able to calm herself enough to enunciate, she vomits these words:Ĭome inside, now. Their good-natured banter is broken, however, when Wren comes bursting through the door, crying and talking incoherently. Meanwhile, adoptive parents Eric and Andrew-the former a market analyst, and the latter a college professor-have been sunbathing on the back deck that overlooks Lake Gaudet, one (Andrew) talking the other (Eric) down from the irrational yet inevitable fears that leave him wanting to infringe on Wren’s freedom after all, nature-filled New England is a far cry from the tumult of the city (Boston). Their tentative back and forth is broken when Leonard proffers a reassurance: “None of what’s going to happen is your fault.” Despite having been warned against speaking to strangers, Wen ignores the subtle sense of unease that’s bloomed within her and allows the man, who introduces himself as Leonard, to initiate a conversation.

When she looks up, she finds herself sharing space with the largest man she’s ever seen. Wen’s play is interrupted by the sound of footsteps on the driveway, which announce the arrival of an unexpected visitor. Located on a remote New Hampshire lake, the property exists in peaceful seclusion the closest neighbors are more than two miles away. Readers first meet seven-year-old Wen, who is capturing grasshoppers on the front lawn of the cabin that her family-fathers Eric and Andrew-has rented for their summer vacation.

His newest psychological thriller, The Cabin at the End of the World, presses a plethora of hot-button issues. Tremblay earned a master’s degree in mathematics and teaches in the Boston area by day. He has had essays and short fiction published in the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year’s-best anthologies and is a member of the board of directors of the Shirley Jackson Awards.

Paul Tremblay is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the horror-suspense hybrid novel Head Full of Ghosts (2015) as well as last year’s Disappearance at Devil’s Rock he also wrote the crime thrillers The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland as well as the short story collection In the Mean Time. The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay is a masterpiece of terror and psychological suspense that adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story.

The cabin at the end of the world book review