A tale of modern-world dangers, dark academia, and the unexpected consequences of revenge as six friends dabble in the occult and are tragically, horrifyingly successful, calling forth an evil entity that demands regular human sacrifice.
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.
