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We Used to Live Here
by Marcus Kliewer
Hard to rate because it mostly reads as a cheesy horror novel, but it really makes you work for the answers. There's intricate and very compelling lore surrounding 'Stray Dog Summit' and the buildings there, but it isn't fully expanded upon. The document listing the different roles people play within an area, like 'host', 'guide' and 'anchor' could have led on into a 900 page novel, but is instead used as a clue to help you solve the ending (Eve is a tourist who becomes a trespasser who becomes a host, Alison is connected to a hook and does a ritual replacement on Eve, who then must do a ritual replacement on someone else if she ever wants to leave?) I hope if this becomes a series that the maps within the old man's Old House are developed further (what civil war museum???) the world that Kliewer has created is absolutely fascinating, it's just a shame that 300 pages are not enough to explore it all.
I'm not sure we ever see the real Charlie and I think we see little of the real Shylo (by the time she is comfortable around Heather, I don't believe she's the original Shylo). The chocolate Lab seems connected to Alison (the family want to rehome it after an incident where it attacks Thomas, and its things are stored in the attic). The entire area up the bridge/motel is some kind of entity or living universe that can shift to other universes at will, and the universes seem to be connected or at least have time loops (the mark on Paige's neck, the old man with the facial scar that Eve gives Thomas, Jenny's similarities to Alison and the young child running around the forest, etc). Eve is presumably still trapped in a wing of the basement, as she sees an ant crawling on her ceiling. But this leads to more questions... Eve believes she is in Washington. Do the areas within Stray Dog Summit stretch out to encompass the entire Earth? Or is it a holodeck kind of deal, as Eve goes into a room of the psychiatric ward, the one she is in shifts behind her, so that she is only ever in a kind of 20 square metre area? I suppose she really could be in Washington, but just within the parallel universe where nobody remembers her. I kind of love having to think about what everything means, but I think it might have been even more satisfying if we had just a few more answers.
I'm not sure we ever see the real Charlie and I think we see little of the real Shylo (by the time she is comfortable around Heather, I don't believe she's the original Shylo). The chocolate Lab seems connected to Alison (the family want to rehome it after an incident where it attacks Thomas, and its things are stored in the attic). The entire area up the bridge/motel is some kind of entity or living universe that can shift to other universes at will, and the universes seem to be connected or at least have time loops (the mark on Paige's neck, the old man with the facial scar that Eve gives Thomas, Jenny's similarities to Alison and the young child running around the forest, etc). Eve is presumably still trapped in a wing of the basement, as she sees an ant crawling on her ceiling. But this leads to more questions... Eve believes she is in Washington. Do the areas within Stray Dog Summit stretch out to encompass the entire Earth? Or is it a holodeck kind of deal, as Eve goes into a room of the psychiatric ward, the one she is in shifts behind her, so that she is only ever in a kind of 20 square metre area? I suppose she really could be in Washington, but just within the parallel universe where nobody remembers her.