Sometimes you find a hidden gem. I requested this book from the publisher who kindly provided it to me. Let me say that I’m super thrilled I found out about David Quantick’s Night Train!
The plot sounded really promising to me. First of all, it’s labelled a dystopian/horror/science-fiction. I do enjoy a good horror novel every now and then. It doesn’t always have to take place in a realistic setting. Believe me, this one is not (I hope). Secondly, it takes place on a train. There’s something about horror stories that take place in one location that scare the heck out of me.
A woman wakes up, and she has no idea where she is. All she knows is that she’s on a train and she’s surrounded by dead people. All she can see outside are occasional explosions. She decides to take matters into her own hands and move to the front of the train. On the way she meets people and otherworldly things. Little by little she figures out what is going on.
What’s good about this book is the way the story is propelled forward by the moving train and the fact that the characters are always trying to move to the front of the train. I didn’t find a reason to stop reading and I was intrigued until the last page to find out what was going on and how things would end for our protagonists.
There are gruesome scenes in here. Luckily, they’re not so bad I had to stop reading. There’s a lot of absurdity as well, I’m sure you’ll be surprised if I tell you there’s a scene with sparkling turtles… What, on a train? Yes, exactly. Sometimes, I’m OK when a horror story doesn’t make that much sense for me. Sometimes I just want to be thrilled, and I want to be shocked by what I’m reading.
This book delivers just that, with an occasional chuckle on the side.
*Many thanks to the Titan Books and Netgalley for providing me with a review copy
The plot sounded really promising to me. First of all, it’s labelled a dystopian/horror/science-fiction. I do enjoy a good horror novel every now and then. It doesn’t always have to take place in a realistic setting. Believe me, this one is not (I hope). Secondly, it takes place on a train. There’s something about horror stories that take place in one location that scare the heck out of me.
A woman wakes up, and she has no idea where she is. All she knows is that she’s on a train and she’s surrounded by dead people. All she can see outside are occasional explosions. She decides to take matters into her own hands and move to the front of the train. On the way she meets people and otherworldly things. Little by little she figures out what is going on.
What’s good about this book is the way the story is propelled forward by the moving train and the fact that the characters are always trying to move to the front of the train. I didn’t find a reason to stop reading and I was intrigued until the last page to find out what was going on and how things would end for our protagonists.
There are gruesome scenes in here. Luckily, they’re not so bad I had to stop reading. There’s a lot of absurdity as well, I’m sure you’ll be surprised if I tell you there’s a scene with sparkling turtles… What, on a train? Yes, exactly. Sometimes, I’m OK when a horror story doesn’t make that much sense for me. Sometimes I just want to be thrilled, and I want to be shocked by what I’m reading.
This book delivers just that, with an occasional chuckle on the side.
*Many thanks to the Titan Books and Netgalley for providing me with a review copy
4 stars
Statistics:
Date read: June 4, 2020
Date published: October 6, 2020
Publisher: Titan Books
Format: eBook
Pages: 400
Genre: Mystery/Thriller/Horror
My Number of Books Read by this Author: 1
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