mikerickson reviewed We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III
Review of 'We Need to Do Something' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
b r u h
Okay, so a family of four goes into a windowless bathroom during a tornado warning. Tree falls through the roof and against the door, pinning them inside for literal days. Then every possible thing that can go wrong does. Honestly this book felt more like a wilderness survival story than a horror story if I had to peg it to just one genre, but there's still some pretty ghastly stuff that goes down.
It's a simple enough premise that has just enough meat on the bones to hold your interest for exactly as long as the book runs; this one doesn't overstay it's welcome. I also did not realize that it was very much a product of the effects of COVID (it started out as a screenplay just as the pandemic lockdowns began, and was basically an exercise in, "what kind of movie can we actually …
b r u h
Okay, so a family of four goes into a windowless bathroom during a tornado warning. Tree falls through the roof and against the door, pinning them inside for literal days. Then every possible thing that can go wrong does. Honestly this book felt more like a wilderness survival story than a horror story if I had to peg it to just one genre, but there's still some pretty ghastly stuff that goes down.
It's a simple enough premise that has just enough meat on the bones to hold your interest for exactly as long as the book runs; this one doesn't overstay it's welcome. I also did not realize that it was very much a product of the effects of COVID (it started out as a screenplay just as the pandemic lockdowns began, and was basically an exercise in, "what kind of movie can we actually film in quarantine?"). Turns out, this is exactly the kind of story that can thrive with those limitations.
I felt just as tense as the characters did throughout the story, and it absolutely achieved what it was aiming for. There was an occult/black magic subplot (yes, they even managed to squeeze a subplot into this claustrophobic room) that I wish was either leaned into more or less than it was, but other than that this is a short, efficient slap in the face of a book.
