The Return
Ratings20
Average rating3.6
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Ratings20
Average rating3.6
A group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut.
Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return - except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She’s right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she’s been or what happened to her.
Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at a remote inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong - she’s emaciated, with sallow skin and odd appetites. And as the weekend unfurls, it becomes impossible to deny that the Julie who vanished two years ago is not the same Julie who came back. But then who - or what - is she?
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The final reveal was so weird and made no sense. I really was disappointed and disheartened at the bizarre ending. Nothing came together and the story was boring, repetitive, and then just crammed into a strange ending.
An impressive debut, teeming with vivid prose and plenty of genuinely unnerving horror. I'll definitely be on the lookout for whatever this author does next!
it felt like nothing was really happening until like 70% through but then shit HIT THE FAN. they spend a lot of time at a creepy hotel with themed rooms and it was everything that i wanted from AHS hotel but didn't get
