It took a minute for me to get into it. It isn’t until halfway through that this novel turns into a horror novel. While the first two parts felt slow and built up the stakes, the second half took off running and made my heart race until I finally finished the book. It felt like reading a Mike Flanagan show. 

The first half takes the time to paint the struggles that Flora, a new mother, is going through. Between the physical and emotional demands of her new baby and also feeling the need to connect with her estranged mother the second half is much more fast-paced. 

The second half is much more fast-paced and is the part that will leave you unable to put the book down until you finish it. Without spoiling it, I’m glad that I stuck it out. This novel does a good job and showing the difficulties of motherhood through using popular ideas from the horror genre.