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If you give this book a one-star review, you might end up dead.

Emma is house-sitting on the rainy Washington coast with only her golden retriever for company. She likes the isolation, the peace and quiet, and the opportunity to read.

But her latest pick, a poorly written and gruesome horror novel, is disappointing and Emma leaves a one-star review. A message dings back - the author, H.G. Kane, has replied and he's furious. Emma brushes it off, until disturbing incidents start to occur. Scratches in the night. A figure crawling around in the shadows.

Kane has written sixteen other novels, all similarly sadistic tales of stalking and murder. He knows he's a brilliant writer - he just needs to make Emma understand...

Expect the unexpected in this pulse-pounding novel of psychological suspense and terror from the critically acclaimed author of the TikTok sensation No Exit.

©2023 Taylor Adams (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers Horror Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Exciting
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Brilliant and tense storyline. Best book I've listened to in ages. I'm now going to buy the book to read as I found it fascinating to listen to. so many books don't have in depth characters. This book does. Highly recommend

Tense, clever, good strong characters

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I really felt connected to Emma. I also liked the other characters and I thought the story was good, not great.

Excellent narrator

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This is a cool concept for a thriller! I loved all of the twists and turns and the multiple POV’s. Emma was inspiring and brave but some of her decisions were frustrating at times! The book read like a movie and had me on the edge of my seat for most of the time,

Lots of twists

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Was a very different prospective, with many twists turns and surprises. Loved this book from start to finish. Wouldn't dare give it a one star rating. Lol

Brilliant

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At first I really struggled to get through this book, but that was mostly because I usually read in bed before going to sleep and I just couldn’t read this before sleeping, it scared me too much!!!
So safe to say I really enjoyed the first part of the book. However like most other reviewers I found the cat and mouse chase in the house went on for too long. Literal hours in the audiobook are spent on it and eventually I found it too dull to be scary and got through the book faster, eventually I even got so bored I increased the speed to x2 just to finish the book.
I felt the book ended well too. There was some twists which were predictable but well written none the less and glad everything was closed up with a nice tidy bow. And the phrase “I’ll meet you there” will never sound the same to me again. It will catch my heart string from now on.
I think the only other thing I disliked was the animal cruelty, real and potential. At one point in the book I was ready to stop the audiobook and delete it from my library. So if you are a massive animal lover and don’t like the idea of harm coming to your pets take this as a trigger warning. I guess it’s a compliment for the writing that I got such a strong reaction but for me it pulled me out of the story and with audiobooks I couldn’t just scan ahead to make sure everything turned out well. If I couldn’t have maybe I would have enjoyed the book a little more.
So overall it gets a 3 from me. It wasn’t bad, wasn’t great. I’m glad I read it but I’ll never read it again.

It has great moments and bad moments

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