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The sibling dynamic really pulls you in—all nine of them under Frank’s control in that house by the lake feels cramped and tense in the best way. I finished it in two sittings because I needed to know what the forest was hiding.

I started it one evening and accidentally read until 3 a.m., the tension of the forest and Frank's control over Derry and her siblings just pulled me in. The isolation of that house by the lake is so well drawn that you feel every creak and whisper right along with them.

The way the forest is described feels so real I could almost hear the wind moving through the trees, and the dynamic between Derry and her eight siblings kept me turning pages late into the night. Frank’s quiet menace is unsettling in the best way, and the isolated lake house setting made every chap