This was pretty good, but I was definitely left dissatisfied. I wanted more of just about everything!

Paver did a good job of harkening back to earlier styles of writing without making it inaccessible, so I appreciate that.

I enjoyed the dynamic between Jack and Gus and Jack and Isaak, but I wanted more of a slow burn progression in both cases. I didn’t feel like I had enough to go on.

I also enjoyed the menace of the haunting. Once again, I didn’t feel quite as much unease as I was hoping to feel. I needed something stronger. Oddly enough I think the bits about the bear post created the most unease for me.

I’m glad that Jack’s opinion of Algie shifted because wow, he was so fat phobic at the start, and it was frustrating to read. I was dreading Algie being villainized for his weight, but that isn’t the way it goes at all.