Struggling actress Jess is dealing with a panic-inducing situation from work when she finds a 5-year-old boy hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. His dad has become a scary monster, and he needs to get away. Determined to help the kid, Jess flees with the boy in tow, not realizing that she's started a cross-country trail of violence and unexplainable horror, with no easy fix in sight.
This book feels like a fairly standard werewolf/abusive dad metaphor at the beginning, but then takes whiplash-inducing twists that make the reader realize that the horror in this book is way more complicated and deadly than it seems. It's crazy, it's imaginative, it's terrifying, and it's one of the best horror novels I've read this year. Highly recommended!
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