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4.5 stars.
it's best to go into this atmospherically creepy book knowing as little about it as possible: a woman picks up male hitchhikers on lonely stretches of scottish highway, and they're not seen again. it sounds like a standard horror story set-up, but what's actually going on is much stranger (though a straight-up plot summary would sound kind of silly, so seriously, don't go looking for one). like peeling back layers of an onion, we gradually get to know this lone woman, though never comp ...more
it's best to go into this atmospherically creepy book knowing as little about it as possible: a woman picks up male hitchhikers on lonely stretches of scottish highway, and they're not seen again. it sounds like a standard horror story set-up, but what's actually going on is much stranger (though a straight-up plot summary would sound kind of silly, so seriously, don't go looking for one). like peeling back layers of an onion, we gradually get to know this lone woman, though never comp ...more
You want to read a creepy book? Go for this one, it's extremely creepy. But whatever you do, DON'T read the blurbs, especially the Goodreads blurb on the edition I read - it gives away the whole story. I think it is a disservice to Goodreaders when some librarian does that. You really are better off not understanding what is happening as you go.
Sometimes the themes of the book are delivered with a heavy hand. I won't reveal the plot of the book, but I will say that "man" is substituting for some ...more
Sometimes the themes of the book are delivered with a heavy hand. I won't reveal the plot of the book, but I will say that "man" is substituting for some ...more
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