Vessel

I loved the first 200 pages of this book. It was well-paced with great characters and a brutal look at PTSD. In some ways, it reminded me of Stephen King's “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.” In that book, the mundane story is more interesting than the monster. In this one, the actual struggles of Catherine are even more engaging than the alien subplot for a long time.

Which made it much more disappointing when the book approached the last third, and the ending was just devastatingly dull. Not to mention, there's a ham-fisted love plot that is supremely uninteresting. This book had a lot more potential than it ended up delivering on for me.