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rdellavalle's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.0
alexandra_ninelives's review against another edition
4.0
Oh I love King!
This book follows Trisha McFarland, a 9-year-old girl, who gets lost in the woods because she had to pee. And also because she was tired of listening to her mother and her brother fighting.
Her brother is the 14-year- old Pete who is struggling to make new friends. Her mother and father are Quilla Andersen and Larry McFarland who got divorced. Larry stayed in Boston and the others moved to Southern Maine.
Quilla is making the children go to "fun" places with her every Saturday but neither of her children likes going.
So Trisha got lost and I was sure she would die. She was so freaking stupid in the first chapters. I won't say what happened but I love the direction King went with this book.
Sometimes it was hard to believe a little girl could be so unlucky but then I remembered how unlucky I am, I wouldn't have lasted an hour if I got lost in the woods- especially those woods.
Even though the story focuses on Trisha and her journey, I feel like I know this family well, especially her father and her brother. Her mom was a little forgettable and a bad mother to Trisha.
Overall, everything fell into its place sooner or later. But this is King y'all, he's a genius!
This book follows Trisha McFarland, a 9-year-old girl, who gets lost in the woods because she had to pee. And also because she was tired of listening to her mother and her brother fighting.
Her brother is the 14-year- old Pete who is struggling to make new friends. Her mother and father are Quilla Andersen and Larry McFarland who got divorced. Larry stayed in Boston and the others moved to Southern Maine.
Quilla is making the children go to "fun" places with her every Saturday but neither of her children likes going.
So Trisha got lost and I was sure she would die. She was so freaking stupid in the first chapters. I won't say what happened but I love the direction King went with this book.
Sometimes it was hard to believe a little girl could be so unlucky but then I remembered how unlucky I am, I wouldn't have lasted an hour if I got lost in the woods- especially those woods.
Even though the story focuses on Trisha and her journey, I feel like I know this family well, especially her father and her brother. Her mom was a little forgettable and a bad mother to Trisha.
Overall, everything fell into its place sooner or later. But this is King y'all, he's a genius!
colbyreads's review against another edition
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
abbycadabsy's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.75
macyishere's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
smaranell's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
cjeanne99's review against another edition
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.0
I am trudging through Tana French’s The Witch Elm - with King’s Holly next up on my TBR. To give me some encouragement of what lies ahead - I decided to do a quick Stephen King audio book.
Trisha McFarland is nine, a Red Sox fan and heading off for a six mile hike with her mother and brother on the Maine-NewHampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail. Trisha has her lunch, her poncho, her Walkman, and sadly - a desire for privacy when she steps off the trail to pee. Returning to the trail, she no longer sees her mother or brother - and makes the first of her bad decisions - she decides to take a “short cut” across the woods to catch up with them. This leads her further and further into the wilderness. We spend one week with Trisha while she manages to stay alive in the Maine - and then New Hampshire - woods. Surviving on fiddlehead ferns, water from a stream, berries, and a raw fish she manages to catch. For nine years old she knows a lot about managing in the wilderness - about what plants to avoid and what to eat, about using pine boughs for a bed cover, using mud for her wasp stings. Thanks to her Walkman - she is able to listen to radio broadcasts of the Red Sox and hear her beloved Tom Gordon come in as the closer.
The story follows all nine innings of Trisha’s ordeal - including her hallucinations that Tom Gordon is with her - urging her on. The book is primarily Trisha - with a few supporting characters. No creepiness factor, no supernatural events - just a good story of how one nine year old girl survived for a week in the wilderness. And at the end King leaves you wondering - did she? Or didn’t she? I say yes.
Trisha McFarland is nine, a Red Sox fan and heading off for a six mile hike with her mother and brother on the Maine-NewHampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail. Trisha has her lunch, her poncho, her Walkman, and sadly - a desire for privacy when she steps off the trail to pee. Returning to the trail, she no longer sees her mother or brother - and makes the first of her bad decisions - she decides to take a “short cut” across the woods to catch up with them. This leads her further and further into the wilderness. We spend one week with Trisha while she manages to stay alive in the Maine - and then New Hampshire - woods. Surviving on fiddlehead ferns, water from a stream, berries, and a raw fish she manages to catch. For nine years old she knows a lot about managing in the wilderness - about what plants to avoid and what to eat, about using pine boughs for a bed cover, using mud for her wasp stings. Thanks to her Walkman - she is able to listen to radio broadcasts of the Red Sox and hear her beloved Tom Gordon come in as the closer.
The story follows all nine innings of Trisha’s ordeal - including her hallucinations that Tom Gordon is with her - urging her on. The book is primarily Trisha - with a few supporting characters. No creepiness factor, no supernatural events - just a good story of how one nine year old girl survived for a week in the wilderness. And at the end King leaves you wondering - did she? Or didn’t she? I say yes.
vlreid's review against another edition
4.0
Trisha McFarland is a nine year old girl who goes for a day hike on the Appalachian Trail with her mother and older brother. Early on, she gets separated from them and spends days alone in the woods trying to find them, trying to find a trail, and trying to find civilization. Trisha is an incredibly intelligent, self-reliant, and resourceful girl which is why she is able to survive for so long. She has a Walkman and listens to Red Sox baseball games when she gets tired or scared. She idolizes Tom Gordon, their relief pitcher, and has imaginary conversations with him in the woods, making her feel safe. It is her conversations with the pitcher that gives her hope and keeps her going. This book was a real page-turner, but I literally had to set it aside each day about 5:00; I'm a big scaredy cat when it comes to reading thrillers, and this genre has the tendency to keep me awake at night.
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