Broken Monsters

This is a page turner, but with a few more flaws (e.g. thing I didn't enjoy as much!) than the other two books of hers that I've read. She manages to create modern Detroit as a background character in a wonderful way, even sort of mocking herself in a character who is new to the area, pseudo-exploiting it. The central characters are two women–a mother and her daughter–who have multi-layered personalities, but the other characters feel so one-note that they end up distracting from the main themes, given the multiple-perspective structure of the book. When we get away from Layla or Gabi's perspectives, my interest waned.

That said, it's a solid thriller with a few mystical-horror elements which worked well. I hope we get to see these characters again...?

It's like the first season of True Detective and Stephen King had a really creepy baby.

I liked the book. I was interested throughout and read it in a day. But, wow. That took a hard left about 50 pages from the end. I hadn't read any of the author's previous works and was not expecting that.