I will admit that I spent the first third of the book vaguely confused. The writing was so good and the story interesting enough that I kept reading it, and I'm so glad that I did. There is a lot going on in The Beasts of Vissaria County. Part southern gothic, part creature feature, part family drama, part the evil that men do. The threads seem rather disparate at first, but by the end it all came together. 4.25 stars