The Shadows

I don't know if I just wasn't paying enough attention while reading the beginning of this book, or if it was just too jumbled to follow without confusion. I think this book would have benefited from an index because there were a lot of characters that were called different things depending on the point of view. Billy was also William, Mom was also Daphne, Carl was just called Dawson, Paul was just called Adams, etc. It makes it hard to remember when there are like 10 plus characters to follow if half of them have multiple ways of being referenced. This book gave me anxiety more because I didn't know what was going on half the time, than for the thriller aspect. The lucid dreaming, ghosts, murders, it just wasn't cohesive. What happened to the pedo gym teacher? That was just left and never dealt with. The full circle nonsense at the end with Dean Price dying the same way James and Charlie's dad did was more of an eye roll moment than an “Aha” moment. This just wasn't it for me.