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I was excited to read this. I'm not a big fan of “horror” but the concept sounded good. This book is full of just awful, unlikable characters. I didn't like how the POV of the story would change after every paragraph. I don't mind different POVs if they are transitioned and separated by chapters...not paragraphs in the same chapter. It ruins the flow of the book, in my opinion. Unfortunately, this was a miss for me.

2 stars ⭐️⭐️
Higgggghly disappointed in this. First, this read super YA for an adult book. Then there were WAY too many characters to keep up with - the story was way too short to give you enough backstory to really care about any of the characters. There was a love story that was formed out of nothing as the characters barely communicated with each other and honestly, I had no idea what was going on. It just went in a completely different direction that I wasn't expecting and not in a good way. I understand the commentary the author was trying to portray but there was so many different things going on, it all kind of fell through.
Stick to Bird Box.

Feels like the author just wanted to do a mash up of the FNAF inspired movie with Nicholas Cage & the reboot of the Goosebumps witch movies on Netflix. I sometimes really dislike authors already prevalent in the industry because who tf else would been able to get this published?

author makes a note about making this novel her glory against bigots/racism with putting absolutely zero effort in accomplishing this. She probably just thought it was the new fun thing to do according to Twitter. The novel has that, yeah, but the lack of writing skills makes it read less with the purpose of combating against racism, and more like the author wanted the world to know she's on some woke shit.

If I could pay to get my time back from reading this, I'd happily go broke to do so.