Author: Fredrik Backman

I’m currently working through the backlog of unread books on my shelves. That sometimes means a departure from my current reading tastes – more YA, more fantasy and sci-fi, and fewer books by authors of color. This book is one I requested in a gift swap when I thought I might try reading some horror. I’ve since discovered I don’t like horror very much, but this is one of the books in that genre that I’ve enjoyed best. The supernatural horror was delightfully creepy, perfect for fans of the recent Netflix show Evil. The human horror in the story was far scarier to me. I often found it stressful to read about. There one truly awful scene where cats are injured that I saw coming and was able to skim, but I nearly knocked a star of this rating for it. It was just terrible to read. The book did keep me turning pages, wanting to know how everything would turn out. I wasn’t emotionally invested though and it just wasn’t my kind of story, so there wasn’t anything to make me really love it. It’s also now been a little while since I read this and I’m finding that this story hasn’t stuck with me, so I have knocked a star off for that! Read more »