A glorious, wild ride ... Balancing this many characters and subplots in an 880-page novel is tricky, but the payoff is tremendous. I teared up when all the threads and characters and decades came together as the remaining friends face the monster they pulled into the world — and the ones they became by doing so.
Real history overlaps with unsettling verisimilitude as the six friends bear this secretive, unshakable burden. Hill’s remarkably well-paced, character-centered epic, blanketed in unrelenting dread that escalates to pure terror every Easter, is perfectly suited for this moment.
