WARNING: This book briefly discusses the ending of two Stephen King books: “The Shining” and “The Stand.” It stood out to me greatly because I was simultaneously reading “The Shining” and thought what are the odds?
“When you saw something awful, you had to put it away in a box. The box was something that you kept locked in your head, and you only ever opened it to throw something else inside. The work, and the sights it brought you, had to be kept separate from your life at all costs. It had sounded so simple, so neat.”
This book starts off with a bang! Within the first ten pages, two young boys emerge from the woods soaked head to toe in blood. The victim’s body, unrecognizable. Who made them do it? The faceless man that stands lurking in The Shadows, the woods behind the town, beckoning to them with blood stained hands.
After receiving word that his mother has taken a brutal fall and landed in hospice, Paul Adams returns to his quiet little home-town called Gritten Wood but not without an internal struggle. He left here for a reason and vowed never to return, yet here he is. Twenty five years have gone by and everything remains the same causing the graphic memories to press on. He thinks of the playground and what happened there, two friends that he wished he’d never met ring constant in his ears: Charlie Crabtree and Billy Roberts. Even his childhood girlfriend Jenny is still hanging around, not much has changed, and the feelings are still there. But, there’s something that Paul is forgetting, something that he must have blacked out in his mind.
“I’d left it behind, and yet it had been here the whole time.”
“...The past was a long time ago, it can’t hurt you anymore.”
Everything started to go downhill after one seemingly innocent question...“Do you know what a lucid dream is?” Then enters a world of delusions, disappearances, and actions you can’t take back. I’ll see you in my dreams takes on a whole new meaning in this creepy tale.
Plug your nose and close your mouth, and see if you can still breathe. Sometimes that’s the only way you can tell the difference between being asleep and awake. Make a sacrifice and you can escape to this dreamland forever.
“It’s going to be okay.”
“Yes. I think about that a lot. How every parent says it, and how often they’re wrong.”
A shocking plot twist that you WON’T see coming!!
“Yeah, but those are the best kind of stories, right? I like the ones that take you by surprise.” Me too, Jenny, me too, and this story will leave you with your mouth wide open. If you’re anything like me, you will say out loud “ NO WAY!”
4.5 ⭐️ rounded up to 5 for Goodreads.
This would’ve been a 5 star read had we not been left with so many unanswered questions.
“When you saw something awful, you had to put it away in a box. The box was something that you kept locked in your head, and you only ever opened it to throw something else inside. The work, and the sights it brought you, had to be kept separate from your life at all costs. It had sounded so simple, so neat.”
This book starts off with a bang! Within the first ten pages, two young boys emerge from the woods soaked head to toe in blood. The victim’s body, unrecognizable. Who made them do it? The faceless man that stands lurking in The Shadows, the woods behind the town, beckoning to them with blood stained hands.
After receiving word that his mother has taken a brutal fall and landed in hospice, Paul Adams returns to his quiet little home-town called Gritten Wood but not without an internal struggle. He left here for a reason and vowed never to return, yet here he is. Twenty five years have gone by and everything remains the same causing the graphic memories to press on. He thinks of the playground and what happened there, two friends that he wished he’d never met ring constant in his ears: Charlie Crabtree and Billy Roberts. Even his childhood girlfriend Jenny is still hanging around, not much has changed, and the feelings are still there. But, there’s something that Paul is forgetting, something that he must have blacked out in his mind.
“I’d left it behind, and yet it had been here the whole time.”
“...The past was a long time ago, it can’t hurt you anymore.”
Everything started to go downhill after one seemingly innocent question...“Do you know what a lucid dream is?” Then enters a world of delusions, disappearances, and actions you can’t take back. I’ll see you in my dreams takes on a whole new meaning in this creepy tale.
Plug your nose and close your mouth, and see if you can still breathe. Sometimes that’s the only way you can tell the difference between being asleep and awake. Make a sacrifice and you can escape to this dreamland forever.
“It’s going to be okay.”
“Yes. I think about that a lot. How every parent says it, and how often they’re wrong.”
A shocking plot twist that you WON’T see coming!!
“Yeah, but those are the best kind of stories, right? I like the ones that take you by surprise.” Me too, Jenny, me too, and this story will leave you with your mouth wide open. If you’re anything like me, you will say out loud “ NO WAY!”
4.5 ⭐️ rounded up to 5 for Goodreads.
This would’ve been a 5 star read had we not been left with so many unanswered questions.