This is a novel about a family that suddenly find themselves living a nightmare, and it conveys really well just how violently it disrupts them as a family and as individuals. The characters are all strongly drawn and clearly recognizable as human--except for one, who's an inhuman monster. The actual story is a little disjointed, all kinds of time skips that often aren't entirely clear, and I can see someone being put off to a greater or lesser extent by the pages that are all in italics. It's clear reading it--especially noting the copyright date of 2015--to pick up on at least some of the real-world inspirations for this novel, but it's very much its own thing, pure fiction, characters under a magnifying glass.
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The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings
This really just flat didn't work for me. I thought it was going to something other than it was, I guess. I should have taken a closer...

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A neat little Horror novel (big shock on the genre, there, I'm sure) that plays some interesting games with PTSD and identity, with ma...
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