The Moor

""It's going to drag me into the fire and we'll burn there together." <br/><br/>The Moor has an intriguing synopsis - it's about a group of boys who go on a camping trip on which strange things start happening, and they begin disappearing. Camping horror stories can end up being really creepy, so this was one I had been looking forward to. <br/><br/>This book seems like it's going to be a ghost story, and it ends up being a creature feature. I feel like something along these lines has happened with a few books recently, and it frustrates me. I know it's personal preference, but I get annoyed if I'm waiting for ghosts that never show up.<br/><br/>There are multiple timelines in this book - there are survivors in the present, and then there's also the story of what actually happened. In addition to this, there are newspaper articles, which were interesting in the beginning. I felt like the book relied too heavily on the newspaper articles as a device for telling the story, and I ended up just skimming them since there were so many. <br/><br/>There's a ton of information about characters' backgrounds, and suspense was lacking throughout most of the book. Readers weren't really given a reason to care about the characters yet, and then we were given their life stories. Since the boys were being picked off, it felt strange to read so much about their backgrounds when it didn't have much to do with the actual story. <br/><br/>The story ended up going in a direction I wasn't crazy about, which led to the ending being predictable. I felt like the important parts of the story weren't really ever explained, but so much focus was put on character background instead."