I started this book after dinner and stayed up until after 2 AM to finish it. This is the scariest book I have read in a long time. It is scary from the first sentence and only lets up about halfway through but then gets scary again. I don't want to say anything else so as not to give anything away, but this is a masterwork in suspense and misdirection.
I heard about this book on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. It was his 2024 book club pick and sounded very gripping so I decided to check it out from the library. I was not disappointed! It turned out to be a lot better than I was expecting. It tells the story of a woman who is home alone with her two young children when she hears the noise of footsteps and sees the figure of a man in the nearby hallway. The man is a home invader and appears to be after the young daughter. So can the mother escape and protect her children?
The story seemed pretty straight forward but as it progresses it tells of the hardships the mother had endured going back to her childhood and marriage. She was plagued by the skin disorder, vitiligo, which causes the loss of skin color in blotches. She lost her mother in a car accident, she is at odds with her father-in-law, her husband is not there to protect her, and she is sometimes not believable.
I don't want to give too many other details but overall the novel was a very frightening psychological thriller full of tension and suspense and was very unputdownable. I read it in two sittings over two days and would highly recommend it.
The story seemed pretty straight forward but as it progresses it tells of the hardships the mother had endured going back to her childhood and marriage. She was plagued by the skin disorder, vitiligo, which causes the loss of skin color in blotches. She lost her mother in a car accident, she is at odds with her father-in-law, her husband is not there to protect her, and she is sometimes not believable.
I don't want to give too many other details but overall the novel was a very frightening psychological thriller full of tension and suspense and was very unputdownable. I read it in two sittings over two days and would highly recommend it.
