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DNF 30%...listen, I was intrigued despite the absolute insaneness that is this book, but when they started eating poop I was out. Apparently, that's the line for me.
Matthew, are you ok?

edit: side note, I was imagining the “little nightmares” world when I was reading this book. I feel like this is a backstory to that game.

DNF 20%. I wanted to like this, and it started out so good. 20% in and it's already dragging. I think 2 things are getting in the way of this being a great book:
1. It's way too long
2. I feel like there is no need for supernatural horrors when the actual horrors of living in Jim Crow south are enough.
When I was contemplating DNFing this I went and looked at some of the more negative reviews (3 star and below) and it seems that they all agree this book was too long and drawn out. Since I was already feeling this way at the 20% mark I knew it wasn't for me.

Bro, this book made me so mad I wanted to throw my kindle out the window. I don't mean this in a good way at all. I wanted to DNF this book so bad, but the combination of still wanting to know where this book was going/I've been in a reading slump and DNFing books lately, made me continue with this awful awful book.
First of all, I was expecting something dark or mysterious to be happening. Aliens, demons, shifting dimensions maybe I don't know, but what it actually turned out to be was the lamest thing I could have thought of. I wanted to DNF it there.
But, I was like no wait, what if this is a hunger games type thing, it could still be dark and eerie in a different way.
What proceeded for the next 200 or so pages was just the most cringy and bad written dialogue I've ever read. I wanted to DNF again, but I resisted again for some reason. Maybe the true horror of this book is that I'm being controlled by some unseen force to keep reading it. During this phase (I'll call it the sunk cost fallacy phase) I basically was skimming every page. Skipping through Caz's inner dialogue about her past, skipping most of their dialogue between each other.
Ok then we enter the third phase of the book. Some twists and turns happen. It actually starts to pick up here and I think, well you know what, I'm glad I kept going. That thought was quickly spoiled though when they revealed what is REALLY happening. I was so mad. Like genuinely mad. I'm like this has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever read. You have to suspend so much disbelief at this point because the whole thing is so asinine.
Then we enter the final phase of this book- when I think ok she gets a happy ending. I'll just keep that in my brain when I think about the time I wasted on this book.
But then the last sentence of the book completely ruined it. I said F this book out loud and resisted the urge to throw my kindle across the room.
Maybe that was the point of this book? I feel like the author was trolling us and this is the reaction they wanted. There is no other explanation as to why this book was written.

Not a horror book. I DNF'd at 26% when I felt like the book was going nowhere. I googled to see if my suspicions were right, they were. This is 95% about a failing marriage after a tragic event and 5% “horror”. I felt Miri was unlikable and Leah was unreliable as a narrator. The parts of the book I was most interested in were the submarine and it's sinking, those chapters were 4 pages long while Miri's parts were 20 pages long or more. If you aren't looking for a horror or thriller this book is for you, if you are looking for that, then avoid it.

What a wild ride. So, I was fighting DNFing this book for the first 80%, the only thing that kept me going was that I was just too far in to give up. About 70% in when the “twist” was revealed I rolled my eyes so hard I saw my brain, but I kept going because I was so close to being done. Then the second twist happened at 80% in and I have never been so happy I didn't DNF a book. The ending was absolutely fantastic and right up my alley. It redeemed the entire book for me.

I stopped at 21%-I have been reading some stinkers lately. I basically can't stand how the action is happening in the present and then they do these flashbacks to the characters that take 3 pages to explain and they add nothing to the story. I want to know WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW! They are breaking in, I don't care about your time in the orphanage years ago.

It was good even though I figured out the ending 80% through. It could have been a bit shorter, I felt like I was reading a lot of nonsense after the 50% mark. Overall, it was good, even though the ending made me irrationally angry for several reasons. There was also a lot of liberties taken within the writing, there are several things that happen where, if you think about it too long, you realize how ridiculous it is.

I mean...it was decent. Slightly better than average, not a 4 or 5 star read though. Some of the directions the plot went were annoying to me. Also, why are the characters all so unlikable? I don't think I liked any of them to be honest. Floyd could be the most annoying character ever written. I'm still rating is 3 stars though because I did find myself wanting to know wtf was happening here. I had an idea, but I didn't know how it was going to all come together- I'm glad it didn't go the way I originally thought it was going to go though. Also, the author really did Ellie dirty with how she ended that character.