We Need to Do Something just might be Max Booth III's bleakest work yet - no small feat considering the amount of darkness Touch the Night lived in. More than once, I found myself muttering, "Jesus, Max!" to my Kindle at the lengths Booth would go to in order to make these characters suffer for our entertainment.For having such a simple premise, We Need to Do Something is wickedly compelling. A powerful tornado is about to touch down, and a family of four takes shelter in their bathroom. Despite...

We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III is a book that keeps you asking a lot of questions as you read through the book. That's key to building up tension and intrigue. That is what this book is to me, all tension and intrigue. What next? How much more can they endure? Is he sane? Has she gone mad? What's going on out there How? How much freaking toilet paper do they have in there? I need to find out where this is all going!But there's other questions. Are they doing enough? Are they really try...

wow, this book has me fucked up

bleak shit. i had a hard time suspending my disbelief that it was *impossible* to escape the bathroom after the tornado ended, especially considering the way everything wrapped up. that said, i do love horror that is based on elements of isolation and confinement, so i was willing to (mostly) put all that aside and just enjoy the absolute fucking chaos. honestly, not bad for a novella, and i think the story has the potential to translate really well to screen for the upcoming movie. 3.5 stars(cw...

I devoured this book in one sitting! It's a dark and twisted tale of a family getting trapped in their bathroom after a storm. The scene quickly devolves into madness, much to our reading enjoyment.

I listened to the audiobook. The narrator was fantastic and did an amazing job. I thought it was creepy, atmospheric, and claustrophobic. It was short and sweet. I really enjoyed it.A dysfunctional family gets trapped in their bathroom during a tornado. The drama that endues is crazy.

Ahhhhh this was SO GOODReading vlog: https://youtu.be/6NaOItAWp7Q

reading vlog: https://youtu.be/AXpfik6Q72gThis book is gross. And I LOVED IT!!!It mixes a natural disaster with witchy/demonic vibes, with human psychopathy.Stick a dysfunctional family in a small bathroom for a week and see how sane they come out the other end. This is a page turner. I felt on edge the whole time. I needed to know how it would end and I thought the ending was perfection.

I'm not sure I've ever discussed my background in acting or how reading scripts and screenplays have influenced my fiction preferences. But now is the time. WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING takes place in a bathroom. No scene changes.Think Neil Simon's third act of PLAZA SUITE but instead of just the daughter locked in the bathroom, the whole family is in there and instead of comedy gold & hilarious Jewish accents--you have thick family tension and foreboding darkness.No. Scene. Changes.It takes a certai...

Well, I’m disturbed and feel like shit now. 5 stars!!!

4.5 starsA claustrophobic tale of realism, surrealism, and the struggle for sanity. All of which don't creep too far into fiction, if at all. A fine example of what can be done with minimalism and having a keen eye for knowing the desperation we all have within us--a desperation for freedom, love, escapism, and nourishment.

When I was kid, I went through Hurricane Marilyn in the Virgin Islands and when it got really bad in the night, I hunkered down with my parents, grandparents, and sister in my grandparents’ guest bathroom as the hurricane raged outside. It was one of the scariest times in my life. This truly unsettling novella brought back many of those memories, as it takes place completely in a bathroom after a Texas family finds refuge there when a major storm comes through their town.The story starts off tam...

Well that sure was something - what starts out as a claustrophobic tale of survival horror as one family bands together in their bathroom to wait out a tornado ends in a fever dream of terror! The description of this book is as simple and vague: " A family on the verge of self-destruction finds themselves isolated in their bathroom during a tornado warning." That's it. That's all the reader gets. And that's basically all I am going to leave you with because I want your senses to react like mine

4.5 starsi don't have words for this level of mind fuckery that the author has served us with. all i can say is that max booth III completely understood the assignment and he gets an a+ from me!

Woah.This is a 150 pages novella happening in a bathroom, like literally around the toilet bowl and it's featuring four characters. We Need to Do Something is lean, intense, creative and downright terrifying. Based on a true story, the bathroom also acts as a metaphorical purgatory for the characters who each have to cleanse their sins. It works both as a survival and a psychedelic horror story.We Need to Do Something is a breathless, unexpected terror, like a low-key Netflix film you've just st...

This book has been on my want list for a long time; I had no idea what it was about because I had never read the blurb, but the cover piqued my interest.After receiving the copy, I discovered that there is also a film. Here are my opinions after reading/watching both of them in one day.Disappointed. Disappointment plain and simple. It got off to a great start. Max's writing was excellent, and I was eager to find out what would happen next. However, 80 percent of the way through the book, nothing...

5 starsA bleak single-location horror novella that fully utilized its limited scope for grandeur, my favorite type of horror stories often involve degradation of the human psyche, and We Need to Do Something is immediately up my street from page one, by introducing a dysfunctional family that is already hanging on by a thread, even before they are being terrorized by their increasingly desperate situation. We Need to Do Something strikes the perfect balance of ambiguity vs. clarity; the immediat...

Great premise but jumps the rails quickly. Realistic parts make little sense (just take the hinges off the bathroom door already). Hallucinatory/supernatural parts become tiresome. Needs a copyedit. Unsatisfactory non-ending.

Enjoyed this dark and very original novella by Max Booth. The unique plot - 4 family members trapped in a bathroom during a storm - leads to some dark personal moments that are simultaneously wildly disturbing and extremely entertaining. There are a few moments in this one that will make you wince in a blast of shock horror, and one moment in particular got a literal, skin-crawling "YAAAHH!" out of me while reading it.This one goes places you don't think it will, and brings a mountain of pain in...

Holy cow!! What did I just read? If you like horror and want a fairly quick read, this is it.