I love authors like Stephen King, Sire Cedric, or Graham Masterton, I read their novels in a few hours, but now I dragged this book more than a fortnight. So I absolutely do not say "The Hunt" is a bad novel, not at all, but it is too slow in my opinion. Certainly, there are a dark atmosphere, complex characters; However, the increase, the narrative structure rather have bothered me. The more than 600 pages could have been condensed into half with more intensity.