First off, I really enjoyed this book. Very dark and disturbing. Four pretty typical American college students who have never even considered their mortality are suddenly confronted with their own (and each other’s) horrific deaths. None of them are particularly likable, but not so awful that their deaths didn’t bum me out. Poor Pablo suffered so much that his death was more of a mercy at that point. Amy’s struck me as particularly tragic, but that might just be because it was unexpected.
What do you think would’ve happened if Stacy had held out til the Greeks and Brazillians got there? Would they have run into the hill to try and help her only to have gotten trapped? Would they have tried to run away only to be murdered by Mayans?
What do you think about the Mayans? At the beginning, I thought they were trying to warn them away, but the language barrier made it impossible. When people got trapped on the hill, they didn’t let them leave because they didn’t want the vine to escape. But if tourists kept showing up and wandering back to the old mine, I would think they would make more of an effort to at least learn Spanish. Now I kind of think they were feeding it… the cab driver said it was a bad place.
Anyway, very cool book. The tension was there from the beginning and only escalated from there. If you like horror at all, I highly recommend it.
by Which-Height-1933