I listened to this as an audiobook and I thought it was super creepy up until the last few chapters. Then it took a supernatural twist that I wasn't ready for and it really ruined the book for me. Parker as a protagonist was fine, but it was kind of annoying the way he thinks that even though many doctors before him had not been able to cure/diagnosis their problem patient, he would be able to because he obviously knew better. Then he decided there was nothing wrong with the patient and he's going to try and help him escape the mental hospital where he has been for over 20 years.
Spoilers!!!
It is then that he finds out the real story with the patient, and given ALL the information in his chart and not just a few papers to make it look like people had been trying. Maybe if he had been given the whole story in the beginning he wouldn't have made the decisions that he did. This is when it goes off the rails and he finds the actual skeleton of the supposed patient in the walls of his childhood home and that there was a (being, thing, alien?) that had taken over his body and was killing off anyone trying to help him. It just was so weird and far-fetched out of nowhere that it ruined the whole book for me and ultimately led me to rate it 2.5-3 stars.
Spoilers!!!
It is then that he finds out the real story with the patient, and given ALL the information in his chart and not just a few papers to make it look like people had been trying. Maybe if he had been given the whole story in the beginning he wouldn't have made the decisions that he did. This is when it goes off the rails and he finds the actual skeleton of the supposed patient in the walls of his childhood home and that there was a (being, thing, alien?) that had taken over his body and was killing off anyone trying to help him. It just was so weird and far-fetched out of nowhere that it ruined the whole book for me and ultimately led me to rate it 2.5-3 stars.