It's the end of summer, and Andrew Blur is moving to Nashville for graduate school at Vanderbilt. While he'd been looking forward to this for ages, it's with a lot of emotional baggage that he makes the journey now — his best friend and adopted brother, Eddie Fulton, had already been at Vanderbilt for a semester, getting ready for Andrew to join him, when he inexplicably committed suicide just weeks before the fall semester was to begin. Andrew is sure that Eddie wouldn't kill himself, and it's with that in mind that he makes the move — yeah, he'll go to school, but his main goal is to prove that Eddie was murdered. However, Eddie and Andrew had a deeper connection, dating back to a horrific incident when they were 13 that tightened their bond and gave them both the ability to see revenants of dead people. When Eddie's revenant attaches to Andrew, Andrew's mission gets even harder, as Eddie's ghost is certainly an angry one.
This is a great horror novel with plenty of spooky situations, yes, but it's also an amazing look at the grieving process, self-realization, and learning to let go. I was thrown a bit at the beginning by Andrew's copious alcohol consumption and drug use, but as I continued to read, I realized how right it was for Andrew's character. I ended up really enjoying this book, and I highly recommend it to fans of horror.
*This book will be published Sept. 28, 2021.
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