I don't know how to review this book. It started out with a lot of promise. Creepy house, old well, maybe or maybe not haunted or possessed. But then, the story took a weird twist and just seemed to dwindle down and get tired. This would have made a good short story. It almost seemed to me that so much of the conversation was an afterthought. The characters were only partly developed and could have held so much more promise. I kept waiting to hear more about the missing families. Did Steven kill them? How? Where did he hide the bodies? What was in the canoe? Instead of sticking with the horror/suspense story, the writer jumped completely off the platform and went with alien artificial insemination and supernatural gifts from another world. I think it would have made a great demon/ghost/psychotic killer story. But oh well. It was odd and a quick read. It took me an hour and a half from start to finish.
[book:The Family Bones|5585024]
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