BOOK REVIEW: THE RIVER BY PETER HELLER

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Title: The River
Author: Peter Heller
Published: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 272
Rating: 3/5

Summary:
Two friends go canoeing in the wilderness in Northern Canada and while they're there, a wildfire breaks out just as they discover a woman has most likely gone missing in the area.

Review:
This was quite an enjoyable read, but it didn't blow my mind.

I really liked getting to know our main characters in here, learning about their background and their friendship. I also loved the setting and the descriptions of nature and it really felt like I went along with them into the forest. There's a lot of atmosphere in here that I really enjoyed.

For a supposed mystery thriller though, this feels quite slow, especially for the first two thirds. Like I said, I liked the descriptions of the surroundings, but sometimes I felt like we just spent too much time on it and there's even almost an entire chapter just about what they packed in their canoe and I didn't find those parts particularly interesting.

I also wasn't as surprised by how things turned out as I would've liked to be, or I would've at least liked more unpredictable turns along the way, even if we ended up in the same place.

So overall, enjoyable but not amazing.

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