⭐️⭐️/ 2 stars

The Hole is a psychological thriller about Oghi, a man who has lost everything in a car crash that leaves him unable to move.

The story feels more like fiction than horror to me. For me, a horror story makes me feel fear and often makes my heart race. This book didn't, I often times felt unpleasant by whatever was happening. The supposed horror, I think, was really subtle and shown through the actions of some.

The story is also really short and the way of telling the story didn't really work for me. Oghi is the only character who has a name and is spoken to by that name. All the others have a "title" instead; the wife, the mother-in-law etcetera. Because of this the characters seemed like people mentioned in passing instead of important characters to the story.

I also really feel like I was missing an important point of this book. I understood the part about loneliness and dark truths we sometimes want to bury, but it still feels like I missed it. Like their was an underlying point to this book that I should've understood and didn't. Maybe some point were a bit lost in translating the book to English. Also the ending came really abrupt to me and for me, it felt like that shouldn't have been the end. It almost felt like the story ending in the middle of a sentence.

Overall, the book didn't really work out for me. I wanted to try something different from my normal reads, and sadly it didn't really work out. While it was still interesting to read, it just didn't click for me.