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Oblivion Road by Alex McAulay
On their way home from a ski trip, Courtney and her friends get in a bad wreck on an isolated road just as a blizzard descends. Though hurt, they're all alive... For now.
Dun. Dun. Dun.
It probably took about fifty pages for me to really get into the book, but once I got invested in the lives of the characters, I was insanely curious as to how it would end.
As a pretty squeamish person (I'm not the one you want beside you if you're bleeding), some of the descriptions of blood and whatnot had me squirming. For example, on page 92:
Without looking down, Courtney probed deeper. It was spongy and warm inside. She tried to tell herself she wasn't feeling the insides of a human body, but it didn't work.
That, and the next few lines following, put a grimace on my face.
Knowing that things could change at any second and that these people are in a literal life and death situation kept me on the edge of my seat. Would they all survive? All die? Why can't I read faster??
The tag line of this book is right on: Sometimes the will to survive is the scariest thing of all.This book was reviewed as part of an Other Shelf Tour.
