What about Matthew Lloyd Davies’s performance did you like? I would not recommend to every friend, but certainly to those who I know would appreciate at least the same elements I did about the book.

Would you recommend The Ritual to your friends? Why or why not? I liked the premise, history and introduction to a different culture that had never been on my radar before. What did you like best about The Ritual? What did you like least? This is another I should ask for my credit back! Overall it felt very much like a bad B-rated movie! Im very disappointed and feel like I wasted my time with the first 3/4 of a pitiful book just because I wanted to see what it was all about only to end up being terrible anyway. I will say that the last part of the book was full of suspense and action, BUT it just didn’t end up going anywhere or ending with any kinda of wow moment at all. Seemed like the author couldn’t make up his mind what to do with the ending and so drug it on and didn’t end up doing anything special. And finally, after suspecting a weird or tragic ending several things happened that were not explained and then it just sorta snuffed itself out. Actually became very suspenseful and eerie briefly but alas it was drawn out to a painful irritation where I just wanted it to come to a culmination of some kind. Then enter characters with ridiculous sounding vampire voices yet the story at least started to get going somewhere.

The first 3/4 was drawn out and seemed to go nowhere.

As the four friends stagger in the direction of salvation, they learn that death doesn't come easy among these ancient trees. Something responsible for the bestial presence that follows their every step. The residue of old rites and pagan sacrifice for something that still exists in the forest. Ancient artifacts decorate the walls and there are bones scattered upon the dry floors.

But then they stumble across an old habitation. Lost, hungry, and surrounded by forest untouched for millennia, Luke figures things couldn't possibly get any worse. With limited experience between them, a shortcut meant to ease their hike turns into a nightmare scenario that could cost them their lives. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled friends, tensions rise. When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another.

The ritual by adam nevill