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I'm new to reading Malfi's books and I started with his newer ones Black Mouth and Come With Me. I loved Black Mouth and there are so many previous works that I thought I'd give this one a try from the library. I will say this one did not compare to Black Mouth, which as of right now is my favorite.

The quick synopsis is Travis and his wife buy a house, sight unseen, that is next door to his brother in a quiet lakeside community where a tragedy happened roughly a year before. As can be expected things start unveiling themselves and weird things start to happen.

The idea behind this had potential but has been done before for sure. There weren't enough clues or edge of your seat moments for me to try and work out what was going on, it felt like I was reading and not immersed in the book(I like to ponder in my brain what I think is going on). I like to be immersed, and scared.....(sort of on the scared part)

There was a bit of history with the MC that was brought up which I thought would be a huge part of the story, but I was waiting for more of a "oh wow" factor that never came about. I think the author could have delved more into that history and intertwined it in a different way.

I can tell the author has evolved from the earlier novels and while this wasn't awesome it was still something I think was well written. I will say there is a bit of animal abuse that made me cringe. So if that isn't your thing you may want to skip a few sentences, you can see where it is coming but of course I couldn't avert my eyes quick enough. Long story short (or shall I say review), this really had the bones to be good but the execution wasn't 100% there. I will still continue to try the later novels in hopes I find another great one I like!