It's not that this book was bad. It's just that it was predictable and told you the entire plot from the synopsis - but even if it didn't there were no surprising twists. It was okay, but flat. Maybe if you don't read a lot of horror this would get you, but honestly nothing that happened shocked or disturbed me - it was all "evil hick family in Appalachia" to a T.





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It would have been better if at the end Michael decided to be a real member of the family, instead of taking the entire book to monologue about how terrible everything is for him and ending the book the same way. Just...I think a twist of that would have turned this book around for me, tbh.

Especially with the few hints about him only being attracted to dead women, and his anger at Alice being afraid of him despite him not attacking her. I thought for SURE he was going to either kidnap or kill her at the end. Also, the sudden change from him being attracted to her to not once he found out she was his sister I thought for sure was a red herring. I fully expected the end to be him either killing her or keeping her captive to make his own killer family instead, given the explicit incest implications of everything that had happened before with his mother and his false sister.