Neverland

My first iPad purchase (though I had to read it on the Kindle app, as it's not in iBooks yet). Neverland is a very dark, evocative tale of dysfunctional family life and the imaginative world of children on the cusp of adulthood. There are moments of surreal, hallucinogenic beauty, particularly the episodes inside of the nightmarish shack known as “Neverland,” which elevate this novel above the typical horror/thriller into the company of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner.

Then ending came a little too quickly for my taste, but that is my only quibble with an otherwise well-constructed book. The universe Clegg creates is like the sticky, salty air of the dream-haunted island setting – impossible to wash off or forget.