deadhighwaybooks's Reviews (646)

Honestly, the movie was great. I definitely recommend that to anyone that wants to skip the painful, detailed descriptions of business cards and Whitney Houston’s discography 🤣. I did like the rest of the book, though.

I found this book in a local used book store that I frequent. I was super excited to find one by this author, someone I haven’t yet had the chance of reading but have seen is a great writer.

Maybe I just got a weaker story.

I found this to be more dystopian than horror. Although not a bad book by any means, it wasn’t really what I was expecting. That being said let me explain

Keifer is unemployed and searching for a job while his girlfriend is away caring for her parents. He’s tech reliant like all of us are these days and keeps in touch with her through video chats. In his employment search he finds a book store, calls it, and speaks to the owner. Here we meet Brookes. Brookes is quite an odd ball. He’s paranoid and seems to be a bit of a conspiracy theorist. Brookes offers him a job and half of what he makes as compensation. He takes the job and then goes to retrieve his luggage in the train station but then quickly discovers his key to his girlfriends place is missing and now needs a place to stay. Brookes offers him a spot rent free, and here is where the story kicks in.

I’m not quite sure how I feel about this ending, although I did foresee this happening. Maybe a reread in the future will change my mind.