I'll give "Every Last Fear" this: I really wanted to see how it would end, and I finished it in a few sittings. It was...decent. It was predictable in a lot of places, but there were some twists I didn't see coming, and the ending was satisfying.
This would've been a 2.5/3 star read if not for the main character. Matt was completely insufferable. I learned this early on, with that "He was an oddity to most of his classmates, an apolitical Midwesterner." line, but he just got worse. He's a film student, so he's obnoxiously dropping film titles left and right with zero relevance to the plot. The moment that epitomized why I hate this character so much and left me both shocked and not surprised at all was when he revealed that he was a fan of M. Night Shyamalan.
“It’s just fashionable to hate on M. Night.”
Genuinely one of the most hilariously unsubtle things I've ever read. Is Matt an author surrogate?
This would've been a 2.5/3 star read if not for the main character. Matt was completely insufferable. I learned this early on, with that "He was an oddity to most of his classmates, an apolitical Midwesterner." line, but he just got worse. He's a film student, so he's obnoxiously dropping film titles left and right with zero relevance to the plot. The moment that epitomized why I hate this character so much and left me both shocked and not surprised at all was when he revealed that he was a fan of M. Night Shyamalan.
“It’s just fashionable to hate on M. Night.”
Genuinely one of the most hilariously unsubtle things I've ever read. Is Matt an author surrogate?