Customer Reviews
This book is terrifying. I couldn't put it down. I wish there had been more information about the history of the haunting and mysterious figures in the woods. I hope there's a movie in the future. Read this novel during the daylight hours.
This book was so captivating. I’ve been looking for a horror for YEARS that would actually get to me and boy this one delivered. Would recommend if you like fun new takes on the haunted house trope and being sucked in by a (?) unreliable narrator???? (You’ll understand the question marks when you read it. Just wow)
This had the premise for what could have been a good book. But the story was difficult to follow and the writing was choppy. Surprisingly, I kept reading, hoping it would get better. It just became more confusing. The unsatisfying ending didn’t help, leaving me with unanswered questions. I think the only reason I didn’t DNF it was because it was a short read.
Fans of House of Leaves, Shutter Island and the Mandala Effect realm of conspiracy theories will EAT THIS RIGHT UP."ℜ𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔬𝔪𝔞𝔫'𝔰 𝔳𝔬𝔦𝔠𝔢, 𝔥𝔲𝔰𝔥𝔢𝔡, 𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔨𝔢𝔡 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥 𝔞 𝔠𝔢𝔦𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔳𝔢𝔫𝔱, 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤: '𝔉𝔦𝔣𝔱𝔢𝔢𝔢𝔫... 𝔉𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔱𝔢𝔢𝔫... 𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔯𝔱𝔢𝔢𝔫...' 𝔜𝔒𝔘 ℌ𝔄𝔙𝔈 𝔗𝔒 ℌℑ𝔇𝔈. 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔷𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔥𝔦𝔱 𝔈𝔳𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔞 𝔰𝔦𝔠𝔨 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔲𝔡𝔡𝔢𝔫 𝔩𝔲𝔯𝔠𝔥: 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔞 𝔤𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔥𝔦𝔡𝔢-𝔞𝔫𝔡-𝔰𝔢𝔢𝔨. - - - ℌ𝔢𝔯 𝔢𝔶𝔢𝔰 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔞𝔰𝔢𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔡𝔬𝔬𝔯, 𝔴𝔦𝔡𝔢 𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔫, 𝔲𝔫𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔰 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯, 𝔟𝔲𝔱... '𝔗𝔴𝔬... 𝔬𝔫𝔢...' 𝔗𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔟𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔣𝔬𝔬𝔱𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔭𝔰 𝔲𝔫𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔣𝔞𝔰𝔱, 𝔰𝔨𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔲𝔭𝔭𝔢𝔯 𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔩. 𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔪𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔡 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔞 𝔯𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔩𝔢𝔰𝔰, 𝔪𝔢𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔩 𝔭𝔞𝔠𝔢, 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔠𝔠𝔞𝔱𝔬 𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔨𝔢𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔞 𝔱𝔶𝔭𝔢𝔴𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔯. 𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔱𝔞𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔬𝔫𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔯𝔠𝔞𝔰𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔡 - ℌℑ𝔇𝔈. 𝔑𝔒𝔚."This book is NOT supposed to make sense to you on your first read, and you should NOT expect to have all your answers laid out for you like a typical novel would. It's meant to be paired with hours or spiraling down reddit theories on it. It's meant to be paired with typing in morse code into google just to figure out what some of these documents are telling us. Put in the work and you'll add in that fifth star imo (:
Marcus Kliewer somehow created genuine suspense, tension and skin crawling moments with the way he writes. It was so captivating, I simply didn’t want to put it down. If I didn’t have to work, this book would’ve been an easy single day read. Highly recommend!
