it’s just not an erik j. brown book if i’m not staying up til 2:00am cursing his name. truly, i hit that 70% mark and knew i was pulling an all-nighter. brown has a way with words that i just really click with and i found myself flying through the pages, trying to piece together nate’s story and how he really went missing. literally everyone was a suspect for me at one point, and the amount of times I flip flopped on family members was absurd, but it really kept me on the edge of my seat until I KNEW. even then, the surprises kept coming. and holy hell, can brown write a terrifying psychopath. i kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, reading through my fingers, skimming ahead because i was so invested i had to know if they made it out and what the hell was going to happen to this poor family. i love that this is such a different type of story from everything else that brown has written, and i think he executed it SO well. while the mystery and deception take center stage, i appre...