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The book is a collection of stories about the author and her coworkers' adventures as park rangers. I found it an interesting read, and enjoyed learning about the broad range of skills and expectations rangers are expected to fulfill. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about rangers.

This book takes a cultish interpretation on home invasion that is interesting. The author does a good job of laying out the psychology of the characters and their decisions.

Overall, the book was well written, though the switching between first and third person was jarring at times. I see this work as a great exploration into a situation characters could find themselves in, but I feel like it lacked an overall plot to make it a great novel; perhaps it would have been better as a short story.

Either way, I thought it was good, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it unless it seems interesting to you.

Disclaimer: I could only make it through 20% of the book.

I'm not trying to be overly harsh, but this book felt like it was written for children, but clearly had themes not meant for children. For example, the first "chapter" was filled with simple sentences like "Dawn didn't like her step father. Dawn lived with her drug-dealer boyfriend. Dawn's mom didn't like that".

As the story continues, there are too many ridiculous events and characters for me to take it seriously. As someone familiar with the outdoors, there is so little that makes sense throughout the story.

I don't usually read horror, but this was a great blend of horror, thriller, and fantasy. The books starts off by introducing many weird things that happen to the narrator near her grandma's house in rural Appalachia. By the end, the author brings all of these weird things together in a creepy yet satisfying conclusion.