Kyle

3.5 stars

Wouldn't call it a classic, but nonetheless, it's still a good book. Worth the read.

I can't pretend this is anything other than a very flawed book, almost at every conceivable level, but I don't think anything new I have read this year has moved me or kept me as emotionally engaged as this one.

This book almost unfolds as some sort of dark fairy tale, in many ways reminding me of a slightly more restrained Stephen King, with a simultaneously intimate yet epic scale and scope. I'm not sure I've ever read anything quite like this, or not for a very long time at least.

Despite the book running for far too long, I closed it so satisfied that I didn't regret a single page.

I loved the melodrama, the ridiculous and overly sentimental dialogue, the seemingly impossible story, the moral unflappability of the characters. This one just really blew me away, even if I could totally understand someone giving this 1 star.

Probably the best book of the series, but didn't really appreciate this line:

Page 212: “The Latino in Jenn was coming out.”

Very random, very unnecessary.

Otherwise, a little light on the actual scares/making-of-the-show but progressed the plot and characters a lot. A ton is left hanging in the balance and has me excited for On Demon Wings.

COME TO ME. NOW