I was suuuuuper about this and couldn't stop listening because I wanted to know what happened, and the end kind of lost me. It's not that I feel it was a waste to pick the book up, but it was disappointing in the way things wrapped up, because they were a combination of Not Wrapped Up and I Was Really Hoping It Wouldn't Be The Very Conventional Unconventional Ending And It Kind Of Was, so that's disappointing.

I kept thinking of Suspiria (the movie, not the text) when I was reading it, and also Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (the book more than the movie) and a bit The Orphanage (the movie), which is an interesting combination, and I don't know what you can do with that, but that's probably the X meets Y pitch I'll give people when they ask about it.