This book was one of the worst experiences I've ever had reading. At 332 pages, it rings in a good 150 pages too long. 

Something that I LOATHE is an author treating it's readers like they cannot understand what is happening. Every event in the book happens in action and then characters are brought in to say out loud specifically what we just read to one another (or sometimes just to themselves). Also this book is repetitive to no end. Each character has nearly the exact same reaction to the paranormal event and verbally responds the same way almost word for word. 

It's a book that tries to over explain the paranormal aspect, but sets up too many specifics that don't matter, and in some ways contradicts the character's experiences or motivations. This author cannot write women to save his life. She stops in the middle of what she thinks is a potentially dangerous situation to start talking about her weight. The author makes her a skeptic to the point that it makes no sense whatsoever. She believes it is a hoax past any rational point after experiencing multiple things, witnessing multiple things, and other victims.

Finally the book couldn't decide if it wanted to be a police procedural, a war narrative or a paranormal haunting and it did not mix the three well. We get a B-plot that adds an extra 75 pages to the story and doesn't matter at all to the plot or resolution in the end.