ejdawson's review
5.0
I was given this book as an ARC, but I would have bought it anyway after reading that first chapter.
Because this book invites you in, into the home of a beautiful and amusing family that could be your own, or your neighbors. Or that nice family down the street. The one that had something very bad happen to them. It shouldn't happen to anyone, but it could.
When Gary finds out for himself what its like to live in a world of chaos and despair in the wake of his daughter's disappearance you grieve with him, because the author has let you love the family by then, you can't help but feel the powerless frustration with Gary.
His downwards spiral and subsequent drunken apathy in a world that isn't his own anymore tears your heart out. But then something changes, it is the smallest thing, the kindest gesture, and just when you think Gary might be able to recover his whole world is turned upside down once more.
Unlike Alice following the rabbit though, this one chases him home, and haunts him in his own house. The strangeness does not stop until the subtle nuances of a desperate father's dreams to find that he might, finally, have an answer.
This book is subtle, it is slow, and every single sentence was worth it.
Because this book invites you in, into the home of a beautiful and amusing family that could be your own, or your neighbors. Or that nice family down the street. The one that had something very bad happen to them. It shouldn't happen to anyone, but it could.
When Gary finds out for himself what its like to live in a world of chaos and despair in the wake of his daughter's disappearance you grieve with him, because the author has let you love the family by then, you can't help but feel the powerless frustration with Gary.
His downwards spiral and subsequent drunken apathy in a world that isn't his own anymore tears your heart out. But then something changes, it is the smallest thing, the kindest gesture, and just when you think Gary might be able to recover his whole world is turned upside down once more.
Unlike Alice following the rabbit though, this one chases him home, and haunts him in his own house. The strangeness does not stop until the subtle nuances of a desperate father's dreams to find that he might, finally, have an answer.
This book is subtle, it is slow, and every single sentence was worth it.
plumreads__s's review
Starred review to come on www.scifiandscary.com
Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review
Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review
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