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A ludicrously stereotypical family loses their minds while a vague disaster happens around the bathroom they're trapped in. It kept my attention for maybe the first half, then I found myself thinking "are they really going to keep bickering through the majority of this book, is that all this is?" The answer is yes. Then we wrap everything up with some wildly crazy dream sequences. The parents make a confession that we all know was coming from the first second any detail about the two was given. The daughter makes a confession that kinda slightly answers the readers' questions just a little bit, but still leaves like 90% of what's actually going on untold. A pretty odd and somewhat inaccurate DXM trip experience on the part of the daughter happens, giving even more odd sequences. Yeah, a bunch of random stuff. It fell off pretty fast. People die, the end hits you abruptly and without an ounce of satisfaction given.
I found myself consistently asking the question: "They seriously can't beat the door down or break it with anything, not even all of them working together, not even the lid off the back of the toilet?" Then the mom just chips a hole through the door with a shard of glass at the end. You've gotta be kidding me. Factoring that into the equation: No. No. I was going to give this book a 2, but taking my suspension of disbelief and throwing it on the floor to stomp it to death like that? Revealing that our characters ABSOLUTELY could have managed to get outside and described actual horror instead of this limp attempt at claustrophobic tensions between the family for four hours? No. We Need To Do Something doesn't deserve more than like a 1.5. That ending was terrible.
Sarah D
Aug 26, 2020
My top favorite novella for 2020
We Need To Do Something is my first read by author Max Booth III; I bought this and Touch The Night as happy birthday gifts for me, and a nod to his birthday being in July too. He has been on my radar to read for a while, but my library doesn't carry him (lame) and I had to wait for that sweet sweet B-day money to get any of his work. These were suggested by him, several times on Twitter, as we all asked what titles to buy in celebration for his birthday without bothering to look at his previous feed at all; he was polite to everyone, a class act. I am now on a quest to read all of his work, because this novella floored me.
This got 5 stars, of course, see above praise.
I actually posted Twitter updates while reading because I was reacting like a tween watching her first jump scare movie. The summary in no way prepares you; a family gathers in the bathroom during a tornado warning, tensions rise. I mean, I am not going to prepare you either, this is something you are going to have to do or die on you own, but that completely undersells the experience you are about to undertake. And I think that was absolute genius on the part of whoever made that final decision. This novella is less than 200 pages, but the story was like a cyclone whirling around in my mind.
Simply put, I am in awe of this novella. You should read it. This is my top favorite novella of the year so far.
