Rhiannon
There are monsters in the world and the Keating family has seen them with their own eyes.
Right from the opening pages, this relentlessly traumatic story lets you know it’s not going to pull any punches. The fallout from this horrific nightmare follows the four young Keating children, both literally and figuratively, as we pick up four years after the nightmare began.
They’ve never known why they were targeted by the monster, but they want to find answers – and hopefully some peace. When the family is presented with an opportunity to exorcise the monsters from their past, they are unaware it will come at a very high cost.
This is ostensibly a horror novel about a disintegrating family as they navigate the aftermath of one horrific loss after another while collectively questioning their very minds and memories. Their individual struggles in how they deal with PTSD and each other is what I found most interesting and eminently relatable. This family is messy – how they deal (or don’t) with each other and their father, how their anxieties have come to define them individually, and how they struggle to break from those chains to find a happier existence, is what this story is all about. And it’s absolutely heartbreaking.
There are no happy endings here. Greenwood’s stories are always ultimately emotional horror and this is no exception.
And that monster… maybe it has a family too…
Originally posted at www.amazon.ca.
There are monsters in the world and the Keating family has seen them with their own eyes.
Right from the opening pages, this relentlessly traumatic story lets you know it’s not going to pull any punches. The fallout from this horrific nightmare follows the four young Keating children, both literally and figuratively, as we pick up four years after the nightmare began.
They’ve never known why they were targeted by the monster, but they want to find answers – and hopefully some peace. When the family is presented with an opportunity to exorcise the monsters from their past, they are unaware it will come at a very high cost.
This is ostensibly a horror novel about a disintegrating family as they navigate the aftermath of one horrific loss after another while collectively questioning their very minds and memories. Their individual struggles in how they deal with PTSD and each other is what I found most interesting and eminently relatable. This family is messy – how they deal (or don’t) with each other and their father, how their anxieties have come to define them individually, and how they struggle to break from those chains to find a happier existence, is what this story is all about. And it’s absolutely heartbreaking.
There are no happy endings here. Greenwood’s stories are always ultimately emotional horror and this is no exception.
And that monster… maybe it has a family too…
Originally posted at www.amazon.ca.
