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The Hollow Ones by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
2.0

This was clearly written with either major motion picture or streaming series in mind and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it is an easy thing. It's pat. After the twentieth-or-so time one reads "Blackwood didn't answer" it becomes hard to stifle the frustration that at least 50 pages of this could've been cut if the guy would just sit down and explain things to Odessa for fifteen minutes. Also wearying are characters who remain skeptical of everything that takes place despite ample, repetitive evidence that yes, you are currently living in a horror novel. Just go with it.