Easton is such a good character and Kingfisher’s narrative voice permeates the entire story and keeps everything balanced on that perfect edge between horror and funny and then when you get the actual moments of pathos

the widow’s perfect and horrible prayers are exactly right but the real moment is Easton’s “Blessed Virgin, why must you keep sending me innocent monsters?” which

is perfect and stunning and lands with such force because of the tightrope the book walked up until that point. 
Also this is definitely a covid book even if it’s not officially a covid book.