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Spare-Cauliflower-92 t1_iu82wmh wrote

I totally agree! With annoying/unlikable characters this is usually not too much of an issue for me because good characters don't have to be good people. That said, they don't develop in the course of the story or generate any sympathy and there seems to be no reason for them to hang out at all so it is quite annoying that most of the book is about them and the horror ends up as the sideshow rather than the main event. Like you though, the main issue I had with the book is with the writing - it's so stilted because the author has obviously tried to use it as an opportunity to show off her vocabulary instead of drive the plot and half of the metaphors just make no sense

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VibrantViolet OP t1_iu9djwj wrote

I don’t get the characters. I know they don’t have to be likable, but why are they at a destination wedding together if they all seem to hate each other? It would have made more sense if they were all great friends at the start, and then as the book progressed they start to hate each other due to what should have been, well, horror.

They should have turned on each other when shit really hit the fan, in my opinion. I wouldn’t go to a destination wedding with people I’m only acquainted with slightly, much less people I dislike. It just doesn’t make sense.

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Spare-Cauliflower-92 t1_iuae8cf wrote

Oh yeah, absolutely - why were they invited, why did they go, and why wasn't anyone else there who the couple might actually like and be friends with? Just a bizarre set-up, the actual horror events had absolutely no impact on their dynamics so what was the point? My least favourite read this year

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