Executive Summary: I liked this book a lot more than I expected to, especially given that it's horror, which is not really my genre of choice.Audiobook: I love Kate Mulgrew as Captain Janeway. In fact I happened to stop listening one day and turn on the TV and Voyager was on, which made for a very surreal experience.I didn't know she narrated audiobooks, but she has a great voice for it. Not only that, but she does a variety of voices that really add that extra something that makes it worth doing this in audio rather than reading with your eyeballs.Full ReviewI first ran across Joe Hill with his excellent [b:Locke & Key 26225895 Locke & Key Joe Hill https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1441385552s/26225895.jpg 46920430] series. That is also supposed to be horror too, but for me the fantastical elements made it really enjoyable for me. This book is in a similar vein.I know Joe Hill changed his last name to try to distance himself from his much more famous father, but this book felt like it could easily have been written by his dad. There were a few easter eggs that seemed to nod to his father, including a mention of Mid World, which I thought was interesting because one of my first thoughts about this book was that Randall Flagg would be very interested in capturing some of these people to use as breakers.I love the idea of traveling hidden ways and discovering secrets that was the core of the fantastical elements of this book. It reminded me a lot of [b:The Talisman 59219 The Talisman (The Talisman, #1) Stephen King https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1170530286s/59219.jpg 3324421]. I feel bad comparing this so much to his father, but in this case I think that's a good thing, because he is one of the few horror writers I seem to like.That said, this is definitely its own thing, even if it might happen to take place on another level of the Dark Tower. This book is the kind of horror that is more about the kind of things people do to each other and themselves than a book about a monster or killer doing awful things.Don't get me wrong, this book has those things, but not all the worst parts of this book are perpetrated by the villain, but the protagonists. I think that's another reason why it reminded me of a Stephen King book. I thought Vic McQueen was a great character who is incredibly flawed and terribly damaged.I'm sure it's hard for Joe Hill not to have been influenced by his parents, and he talks a bit about growing up in a family of writers in his author's note at the end. I'm certainly much more inclined to pick up another book of his now after how much I enjoyed this one. I'm also really looking forward to seeing how the TV adaptation of this comes out.