Horror -- 4 1/2 stars
Christopher is seven years old, and he's the new kid in town, a misfit with dyslexia. One day, Christopher walks into the woods behind his home and disappears for six days. When he walks out, he's a genius with an imaginary friend and a mission--build a tree house in the woods by Christmas or everyone will die. ----- Totally original, with a large cast of diverse characters--Christopher and his friends are better written than the adults who lean toward the stock good mom/ bad mom variety--this book reads like a 721 page hallucination. Nothing makes sense, until it suddenly does; and that's somehow even worse for the small town of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. The story build is slow and steady, though it never stops. It gets a little wordy at times, but remains almost hypnotically readable.
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