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14 by Peter Clines
This book described badly: A Lovecraftian twist on something truly terrifying: meeting your neighbors.
Peter Clines writes two elements brilliantly: character interactions and eeriness.
This book is a mystery, a bit of a haunted house story, and it’s about making friends and growing as a person.
The first book in Clines’ Lovecraftian Threshold series, 14 follows Nate on his initially far-too-normal adventures in confronting the Los Angeles housing market.
The clues slowly reveal a strange, otherworldly set of secrets hidden by the odd apartment complex where he ends up helping to build a quirky found family.
A haunted house, family drama, mystery, with Lovecraftian elements and humor.
Side note: this is the first volume in the Threshold series, but I read it second. The Fold is volume two. I read The Fold first, and that was a fun experience.
It’s a good book for the Halloween season, because when it’s creepy it is wild. And it explores monsters, both human ones and monstery ones.
Worth the headspace.
