When Nate's father dies, he leaves behind a final gift for his son: his childhood home. Married now, Nate decides to move in with his wife, Maddie, and their son, Oliver, seeking peace from the chaos of the city.
But it doesn't take long before things get strange in the night and even stranger by day.
Because Nate was a child being abused by his father, and has never told his family. Because Maddie was a little girl who saw something she shouldn't have. Because something sinister, something hungry, walks in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of this town in rural Pennsylvania...
And now, what happened all those years ago is happening again, and this time, it is happening to Oliver. When he meets a strange boy with secrets of his own and a taste for dark magic, he has no idea that what comes next will put his family at the heart of a battle of good versus evil.
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Edmund Walker Reese was a man of numbers. PROLOGUE 1 - RIDE THE LIGHTNING
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(@penguinrandom, 20 July 2021, ebook, 530 pages, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @BorrowBox, # POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a book that takes place during your favourite season)
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This is a new author for me, also chosen because it fit the prompt plus the blurb made it sounds like a book I'd enjoy. I thought The Book of Accidents was a fantastic book. I love horror fiction but have read less and less over the past few years so it was good to return to my favourite genre. I thought this was a great book, well written, gripping and with engaging characters. I loved all the twists and turns and intensity. I will definitely read more from this author.
