-1 star and trigger warning because dog violence and death. I am a lover of horror but I am SO TIRED of these poor dogs (and other pets and beloved animals) being killed! Heck, even Lewis takes note that the dog was killed because it could recognize the supernatural danger that was present. It's become a common horror trope to kill off man's best friend. Yet there is almost an entire chapter where this poor dog's suffering and death goes into great detail and I almost stopped reading. So, yeah, big TW on that and minus one star.

I'm the kind of person that takes a bit to get into stream-of-consciousness writing. Sentences that are written almost like thoughts. Sometimes halting. Sometimes long-winded. Some starting with odd fragments. Not the kind of thing you can pick up, put down (like me, because I'm reading this on lunch breaks, or on the sly while at the desk at work). This book is best read in as few sessions as possible; one fell swoop if you can.

Then maybe you can get into the thoughts of the characters as they spiral downward, and further still as an otherworldly spirit slowly takes its vengeance for what happened to it 10 years ago by the hands of these four men.

Not a book for me, but I did enjoy the last couple chapters as things built up to a head.