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This book is an interesting read with some odd directions, and for the most part, I found it highly enjoyable. I‘ll say that with the caveat that I do not feel like others will like this book. It has a detached tone to it while things are happening and it leaves the reader like you are never fully brought into the secrets of the hotel. I enjoyed that because our main character often never feels like he has fully been brought into the fold.

We cannot see all that is at stake, because all is at stake.

2017 is shaping up to be The Year of Lousy Endings.

After losing his wife in a house fire, Richard takes his daughter Serena with him to his new job of managing the Deadfall Hotel, a building that defies physics and caters to monsters and nightmares.

The creepy stuff works and blends well with the mundane hotel management stuff. I really enjoyed it until the last chapter fizzled to an abrupt stop.

"The Deadfall is not merely a physical establishment - It is the embodiment of generations of agreements, understandings, pacts, covenants, promises, traditions enforced or simply encouraged, specific and nonspecific contractual negotiations, religious partnerships, spiritual compromises - the bulk of which occurred long before my own birth."

#currentread

Holy cuss, that is some high praise right there. And the following blurb (by Dan "Another Author Who I Totally Love" Simmons) name checks Kafka, Stephen King, and Poe.

We shall see. #currentread

I come back to this one periodically trying to get thru it. It's delightfully creepy but just feels so slow.