Most of the characters are just sketches and the one who isn’t is just flat out unlikable, so the story being written as if the author lacks access to a GLOBE is too distracting. It’s something I’d expect from student work, not a published author. It’s the kind of thing that might be forgivable in a B-movie screenplay where the visuals create setting, but in a novel, not specifying where the story takes place is amateurish. If a story focuses on a dangerous wilderness, geography matters. But the author also has them say things that suggest it’s possibly in the USA or Canada. Characters speak as if their from the UK or Australia (referring to their “mobile” rather than cellphone or “holiday” rather than vacation. 15 chapters in and not a mention of where in the world we are. Every reference to the setting is either locations that are seemingly completely made up or completely nonspecific (“the country” or “the state”). I started listening and the mystery of where the heck the story was supposed to be taking place was more puzzling than the improbable story.
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