The Cabin at the End of the World
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3.4 • 96 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Paul Tremblay’s terrifying twist to the home invasion novel—inspiration for the upcoming major motion picture from Universal Pictures
“Tremblay’s personal best. It’s that good.” — Stephen King
Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.
One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen, but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault.” Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: “Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world.”
Thus begins an unbearably tense, gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are entwined. The Cabin at the End of the World is a masterpiece of terror and suspense from the fantastically fertile imagination of Paul Tremblay.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Be prepared to stay up way past your bedtime. Paul Tremblay’s home invasion thriller is one you won’t forget anytime soon—not just because it’s incredibly dark and violent, but because it’s chillingly believable. Two dads are relaxing at their vacation rental with their daughter when four strangers appear at their door with medieval-looking weapons. The visitors say they’re trying to prevent an apocalypse, and they want the family to make a terrible choice to stop it. Tremblay ratchets up the tension in each chapter, and the deceptively calm narration by Amy Landon suits the strangers’ cold, warped logic—and becomes a sharp counterpoint to the listener’s mounting paranoia. We second-guessed ourselves 10 times before the book was over.
Customer Reviews
Good story but
Happy I’m not the only one that was disliking the narrator for this book. It was like listening to an airplane safety demonstration for hours. I made it through, but barely.
Narrator Bad
The narrator’s voice makes it almost impossible to connect with the story. It’s not necessarily the voice, but the way she reads and her cadence. It kind of sounds like a flight attendant giving pre-flight safety instructions
Horrible reader
The story may be ok but the woman reading it is really horrible.