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Review title: Where the heck did that ending come from?
Product review: This book has a promising start, a cop-out ending, and some tantalizing potential in between. It wasn't scary or creepy, despite promos to the contrary. It COULD have been creepy but it was superficial and the pace was rushed so it never got deep or dark enough to be scary. The technique the author used to run two narratives alternated between flowing beautifully and jerking painfully and transparently. I felt so manipulated by the ending! It was frustrating to get engaged in the parallel narrators only to have them fizzle out and get replaced by a character who is hastily developed in the last pages. Lots of lofty advance praise has been aired for this book and this has left me scratching my head. It's a disappointing book from a talented writer.
