And when the trio makes a grisly discovery in a seafront cave, it seems as though the infamous Dagger Man was something much darker than a simple local creep, and there’s much more to the townsfolks’ lingering stories of missing women than anyone could have initially predicted. I’m looking at myself in the bathroom mirror and thinking about love, because I plan on falling in love this Summer.

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A pretty common element in many novels, it’s on steroids in this one, cruising along in the meta lane. It turns out the only thing that makes us different is that some people are better at hiding their flawed tendencies than others. So, perhaps I am similarly not realizing the depth of this particular novel because I've only read it the one time. The lines between reality and fiction slowly blur as Wilder descends deeper into existential crisis, making the reader question everything they believed.It would be easy to pity Wilder, but by turns, he is both the hero and then the villain of the piece. As if we needed further evidence, Sundial confirms Ward as one of the brightest stars in horror fiction.

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Also, since the story started when the MCs were teens, the first part read YA to me, but even as adults they seemed childish. At first, when other reviewers warned me of this, I breezed through the first 30%-40% or so thinking "Hey, this isn't so bad," and had somehow convinced myself that I was going to keep up from start to finish.Watt is an investigative journalist who worked on stories including MPs’ expenses and the Panama Papers, and her experience makes her heroine Casey, top reporter at the London Post, leap off the page. This multifaceted story is many things — a coming-of-age saga, a true-crime murder mystery, a tragic love story, and a tale of betrayal — with many moving pieces and a seemingly endless array of twists.