The Intruders

Well this got dark and weird.

This starts as what seems a fairly standard thriller with some potential haunted house elements, but the second half just went off the rails and I'm really not sure it worked.

I really started to dislike this around the 25% mark but thought I would keep going to see if it would pick up (easy enough to do on audio), then it hit the 60% mark and things started getting weird so I kept going and wish I'd just stopped.

A lot of things just didn't make complete sense to me, but a few which stand out are:

- What was the point in the past storyline with Leon? Literally nothing came of it.
- Was there a point in her flashbacks of being in a cupboard? Why wasn't that linked to when she was actually trapped in a cupboard?
- When she was trapped, why did she wait a day to look for a way out? Even if you're terrified, that is the first thing you would do.
- The whole snuff film element felt completely out of place in the story, it was as if it was from a different book as it felt so disconnected to the the preceding 60%.

This was my first book from this author, but I do have another which I'll try before deciding if they're for me or not.