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I'm starting this today, and I'm really really excited about it! I love all of Josh Malerman's other books, so I have high hopes for this one! Apparently, two of my co-workers couldn't finish this because they thought it was too scary! 😱

Thank you @Larkken for this perfectly scary #allhallowsreadswap 🎁.
I am really looking forward to reading these two books. Thanks for adding in the sci-fi book; I‘m really getting into the genre more. The bookmarks are so cool.
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All you need to know about this book is that every single one of these reviews is a lie. Theres so much wrong with this book. I almost bailed a few times but i stuck with it and i really shouldn‘t have. What i think it‘s about is family dysfunction turns into a “haunting”. But im not sure because it was all over the place but repetitive at the same time. Also I have no clue what the ending even meant, which irks me.

This is a creepy story, but with all good horror, it takes real life and turns it into the monster we all fear. In this book, Malerman turns family dysfunction into a terrifying story. So often in life, we have a way of projecting who we want to be seen as into the world, but behind closed doors, our secrets turn us into something else. And that "other" side of ourselves can cause hurt, distrust, and trauma.

Weekend camping and a spooky book!

Creepy and unsettling in that trapped way when a character has no clear path to success (indeed, no clear sense of what success is, even) and no allies. It feels like a metaphor for motherhood, and as a result, it is both scary and depressing (but rather more the latter for me).

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+31 points

This entire book was a jump scare! Yet, I found it less scary than watching the actual 1973 movie. Still wickedly scary, though, so if that isn't your game, stay far away from this one. 😱

This was super spooky overall, but there are a couple of things that detracted from my experience. The main one is that Bela's maturity level shifts too much. One moment, she seems like a kindergartener, wanting to cuddle with her parents and unfamiliar with grown-up words, and the next, she's grasping philosophically mature concepts her schoolteacher told her class. And the ending is lackluster. But I still got chills, so there's that.

3.5⭐ I genuinely liked the overall story concept. As such I wanted to love this book and give it a full five stars. The premise was eeriely creepy good; however, the characters were almost all truly awful and hard to like (except for the grandma, who was fierce and wholely likeable). The mother was written to be terrible, but my dislike for her went deeper than the intended degree. Actually, most of the characters were horrible people. #audiobook

4.25⭐
⬗ This story slowly pulls you in and builds dread rather well. It was intriguing and creepy AF, but the ending was somewhat frustrating.
⬗ The narration by Hillary Huber with Kitty Hendrix having a small part was fantastically performed.