In the vein of John MacDonald's Cape Fear, Ahlborn takes the classic stalker tale and updates it for the modern era. The house sits stoic and slightly askew off the coast of Raven's Head. Its off-kilter windows are both charming and disorienting, its walls of overstuffed bookshelves both comforting and claustrophobic. When Leo and Lark Parrish arrive at their vacation home with their parents, their mother's idea of a quintessential Maine getaway seems like both a blessing and a curse. Lark-a novice novelist-can't wait to ...
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In the vein of John MacDonald's Cape Fear, Ahlborn takes the classic stalker tale and updates it for the modern era. The house sits stoic and slightly askew off the coast of Raven's Head. Its off-kilter windows are both charming and disorienting, its walls of overstuffed bookshelves both comforting and claustrophobic. When Leo and Lark Parrish arrive at their vacation home with their parents, their mother's idea of a quintessential Maine getaway seems like both a blessing and a curse. Lark-a novice novelist-can't wait to find inspiration at the end of a fog-entombed pier. She'll forgive her mother for forcing her into this non-negotiable holiday, but only if she can find her muse among a lapping, rocky shore. And while being trapped in a house with no means of escape is the last thing Leo would consider a good time-especially with parents on the precipice of divorce-he can't help but wonder if maybe the change of scenery will help him shake off the chains of sadness brought on by the death of his closest friend. But what starts off as a relatively benign family trip quickly turns menacing. Leo finds himself face-to-face with what feels like his best friend reaching out from beyond the grave, and only hours after they arrive, Lark begins to receive sinister texts. And then they both see it: someone lurking in the shadows of their rental home. Someone who has been expecting them despite the Parrishes being a thousand miles from home.
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Unfortunately this one goes down with the likes of Neighbors for me as one of my least favorite Ahlborn novels. I didn't hate it, but I kinda disliked it. The best part of it was how seemingly easy to read it was for me without losing my steam. However, it felt rushed, pretty implausible at times, and the character development pretty thin. Ezra and Poppy feel more like fairly 2D parental figures struggling to keep ahold of their family, and the antagonists felt uninteresting to me when it was revealed who they were. Leo and Lark were alright. Then you have the boatman that Ahlborn kinda implies may be the antagonist for the first third of the book, creepily placing emphasis on his ability to come and go unnoticed whenever he pleases, then he ceases to exist. Ok, so the boatman was a decoy. This is basically the only time the author tries to trick us. From this point on, the plot goes EXACTLY as expected.
The other main issue I had was how initially, Leo and Lark's first encounter with the antagonists felt so paranormal. I felt a bit like I was led to believe the stalkers had some sort of occult power or something that would realllllly add some fun. The two were extremely enigmatic and just seemingly able to disappear into thin air. Then all of a sudden, they're extremely blatant, extremely human. Once Leo and Lark feel like they figured out who it is, they're exactly right. From that point on, the book and its antagonists felt downright bland, all mystery the book held before then was lost. Everything sorta went as the protags had guessed. There were no other big reveals, aside from the last one that still didn't really redeem the novel for me. From this point on, the book kinda devolves into chaos with our protag family while the antagonists start a wild ricochet of people killing eachother.
The implausibility really hit when the whole protag family seemed to struggle just to handle one guy and a woman, instead of offering any fight back, they're always lost in their thoughts and feelings for pages on end, reflecting in the misery of all the revelations that had come to pass. Every one of these protags was frozen in a stupor when something bad happened. With how sloppy the antagonists were, this should have been MUCH worse for them.
Maybe I'm just not that big a fan of stalker novels. I don't know. This one felt like it just could have done a lot more to confuse me and the protagonists. It also felt like it should have had MUCH more to it than just antagonists that may as well be saying: "Hi, now that you've found out who we are, we're going to come kill you, please lie down and die easy for us." The plot just kinda moved very linearly, and that one line was just that, a line. Not much more to it.
