Recommended to Tremblay fans and also to those looking for something new to spice up their reading rut.
This was a gripping read that was entertaining and perfect to pick up when you have a chance to read it all in one sitting. It'll just be up to personal preference of the reader, which you'll understand once you reach the end of this one yourself and have a chance to decide. I did enjoy the plot, but I think I'm middle of the fence on how the ending worked for me. I found this part to be necessary to offset all the dark spookie wookies going on here. They bicker and have emotional moments and have to work through the terror of protecting their child just like all the rest of us, which was both beautiful and heart warming. Many apologies if that came across the wrong way. My intention was to state how grateful I am that the author included them as they should be here, real and normal! There is still a shortage of LGBT characters in the mystery, thriller, suspense genre and I was pleased to see them included here in the manner that they should be.
EDIT- as pointed out by a reader below, I was not intending to imply that gay couples are neither "real or normal". The author has done such a fantastic job of taking a homosexual couple and making them real and normal, as they should be. So instead of talking about the plot, I wanted to mention what caused me to connect with the characters, and a majority of it was the portrayal of Wen's two dads, Eric and Andrew. It's very hard to talk about any specifics here, because this is a very different book with a very different vibe and to spoil it would just be cruel. What is this book about you ask? I'd rather not say, partially because I'm still trying to process what exactly I just read. I felt like a brittle bone I was so rigid and engrossed while reading that if someone had come along and poked me with their pinky, I may have shattered. The tension and building of suspense here is brilliant. There are people here and they want to come in and they want to talk to you and some of them scare me." That said, I enjoyed The Cabin At The End Of The World, but it wasn't my favorite. Regardless of which book you've taken to mostly, I think all who enjoy his books can agree that no one writes about the dark and gritty unseen moments of domestic life like he can. Each of his fans have their own personal favorite for me, that's A Head Full Of Ghosts. Each one of his novels are widely different in plot, but also wholly similar in their unsettling and deliciously compulsive nature. I love that, when you pick up a Paul Tremblay novel, you never know exactly what you're getting yourself into until you finish the book.
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