Started: 27.2.26
Finished: 28.2.26
Paperback
TBR Prompt: Free pick from bookshelves
I've been wanting to read this book for a long time as I've heard such good things about it. It was meant to be one of my March reads, but I started it yesterday and finished it today, oops!
The narrator is an un-named person, recounting a series of random occurrences from his childhood; at the start of the novel he talks about memories and how they become distorted over time. The chapters do flit forwards and backwards in a non-linear way, which makes it a bit hard to follow. As he reconstructs his past, he realises with hindsight that all the odd things that happened to him were linked, and that they all culminated in a horrific event.
I'm not really sure how I feel about this book. I don't think it lived up to the hype for me. One of the things I struggled with is that a lot of the actions and dialogue felt too mature for the age that he claimed to be in that particular memory - running around in the woods with his friend when they were five and six years old, for example. And although the ending, and the way he finds out about everything that happened, was certainly horrific, I would put this book in the thriller genre rather than horror.
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