Someone said that eyes are the mirror of your soul. What if it isn’t just that ? What about a doorway ? What if your eyes are a gate allowing passage through a world from another ? Who’ll pass through ? Or what.
It’s starting simple. With a teen recording a true crime vs supernatural events youtube channel after she found cold cases in her ex cop mother stuff. Her teacher, Josh, only survivor but also only decent suspect in the old murders, has to fight to prove he is actually innocent.
An experiment gone wrong, mysterious death piling up and a survivor whom looks like the perfect suspect. Josh survived once, loosing tragically all his friends when Doctor Ellis ran their scientific ocular experiment. So when the Doc is back in town for a new round of experiments and the weird and gruesome deaths are starting to piling up again, Josh has to do something.
How do you save your skin and those of the people you love when the threat is supernatural and you are - and were also 20 years ago - the perfect suspect for the local investigators?
I think I spent my whole reading, checking, kind of obsessively, my eyes through the reflexion on my Kobo reader. This Story is hell of a scare and a really well written one.
MJ manages to create a gritty and tense atmosphere and an ambiance that keeps you on your toes from page 1 to the end. And what a plot!
I loved the lore. I love the fact that MJ choose to keep the scientific part light, so you are not crushed by a mass of scientific knowledge filling plot holes or making you forget what you came here for. And I LOVED how the whole story is constructed and all those plot twists (especially the end). The rhythm is neat, the thriller development top notch.
I also like the character development and the strong backstories. I found the “villain” a bit light for my taste but it is really a matter of perception and interpretation as there is not just one “villain” in this story and the flaws of every characters are part of the whole things.
I’d say it’s a perfect entry for my Spooky Season 2025 curated list. Trust me, you won’t be able to close this book until you’ll see “the end”.
Thank you NetGalley & Wicked House Publishing for this ARC and MJ for her excellent work !
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