This Thing Between Us

2 (1/2) stars. This has a very misleading premise that advertises this story as a “haunted Alexa spook-fest.” In reality, it's a story about a man's grief of losing his wife and his internal struggle to grapple with it.

The story stopped being “spooky” the moment he moved after crushing the haunted Alexa knock-off. His new home, a cabin, presents a Lovecraftian horror mimicry that fails to deliver and actual scare. It acts more like a cheap copy of other horror novels during this section.

I will commend the author on the way he captured grief and sorrow in this book. The tale shines bright during these snippets and the lead in to the “horror” is just beautiful, yet it somehow slips on a banana peel and falls flat on its face each time the scares are supposed to shine.