I received an ARC from Netgalleyin exchange for an honest review.

Sims is on-form with Family Business, with his classic blend of supernatural horror and slow-building suspense. His characters are believable, diverse, and easy to get invested in, and in a departure from Thirteen Stories, it’s a pleasant change to have a little more time to get to know them, and really dig into the themes of grief, memory, and legacy at play. Sims’ prose is effective and often very eerie, and Sims demonstrates his gift of harnessing horror to deliver empathetic social commentary to great effect here. The sudden tonal shift at the end of the book felt a little too left-field for this to be a five from me, but it’s well worth reading, and definitely won’t disappoint fans of his work.

I discussed this book further on The Hidden Bookcase: this review will be updated with a link to that episode when it has aired.