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Jan 03, 2017Amy_MarkhamPL rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Another creepy, disturbing, and tightly plotted novel from Paul Tremblay, author of the terrific A Head Full of Ghosts. Tremblay blends together elements of horror, psychological thriller, and straight-up crime fiction. In his newest book, Tommy, a 13 year-old boy goes missing in the middle of the night while hanging out with his friends at a local landmark they've nicknamed Devil's Rock. While his mother and sister try to understand what is happening, pages from Tommy's diary start to mysteriously appear in the centre of their living room floor. Meanwhile, other residents of the town start to report a shadowy figure peering into their windows at night. Tommy's friends, Luis and Josh, begin to waver in their original account of what happened on the night of the disappearance. Soon connections start to emerge between the diary pages, the death of Tommy's father many years earlier, and a terrifyingly unhinged young man named Arnold.