Let Him In by William Friend

Helllllooooo!

Been a minute. Today I am posting all of my summer reading reviews! This is 1 of 7. 

This was recommended to me by Amazon. And goodness it was...AWFUL.

Premise: Mom of twins dies after getting stung by a bee. Newly single Dad of twin girls is struggling to keep things together, and enlists his wife's sister (also twins) to help (she happens to be a psychiatrist--while her deceased sister was an artist). Wife and sister's mother is a religious wacko. The twin daughters have created an imaginary friend as a seemingly innocent coping mechanism to their mother's sudden death. Except the friend is snake? Or maybe a bird? Maybe a demon? Maybe their grandfather's spirit, as he also died in the house? And the total ick that Dad and the sister end up in bed, conceiving the boy he always wanted. 

Yeah, this was an acid trip. The grandmother is sneaking into the house and lighting scented candles, doing seances in the attic? The dead mother's paintings are in the basement along with a rattle the grandfather used to shake at the wall? The girls are doing normal twin sibling stuff like hitting each other, but using the imaginary friend to blame? Dad is really an abusive alcoholic? But maybe it's all a dream?

I really have no idea what was going on, who was really doing what, or if anyone actually survived? 

Hard no. 

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