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Charlie Crabtree is a little...off. He’s kindof a loner in high school with an intense imagination and generally makes people nervous. He convinces our narrator Paul Adams and others to have lucid dreams that ultimately ends in a ritualistic killing of a fellow classmate. Charlie disappears immediately following the murder and is never seen again, although he is rumored to roam the forest to this day.

Paul is hesitant to return to hometown Gritten for the first time since the murder to visit his mother. She is suffering from dementia and in hospice. Being in this place brings up a lot from Paul’s past. He learns there have been similar copycat killings since he left. He begins to have nightmares, and...is he being followed?

I liked the slow paced build paired with the gloomy atmosphere and that it was told in past and present timelines. I was really intrigued by the lucid dreaming; it really added to the creepiness factor in addition to the mysterious new killings and Charlie’s sinister story. The big reveal was a bit of a jumble and there were a few new characters thrown into the mix late in the game which confused things for me, but overall entertaining as I just had to find out what happened.