I went into this book expecting a little more horror - and maybe that is my own fault - but what I received was definitely more of a literary science fiction read than anything resembling horror. The writing is extremely well done, but this book is just not what I expected it to be based on the synopsis. The pacing was slightly off as well - and since it was already a book I had not planned on reading, this made it a little harder to get into. I kept stumbling over the characters' names which further impeded my own pacing with this book. The blurb says this is a mixture of The Shining and Shirley Jackson and I see no resemblance to either. Like the plot, I feel the blurb/endorsement is misleading. This comparison is one of the reasons I picked up the book and feel further let down because of the inaccuracy.

I really enjoyed Baby Teeth (even though all I wanted to do was SCREAM at that mother so many times to just turn on a camera or recorder somewhere UGH!) and thought I would have similar thoughts on this book. But between the misleading of the plot/review blurbs and the slow pacing mixed with a literary science fiction novel (not my cup of tea) I just could not get into the book.