The most advanced offshoot in the literary world of Stephen King, which is none other than Joe hill, says on the cover of this book that we are faced with one of those novels capable of summarizing the idea of evil as a human aspect as abominable as it is suggestive for that dark side that yearns for small morbid bites of terror.
The truth is that Paul Trembay arrived in Spain with the Bram Stoker Prize vitola and that supernatural horror novel A Head Full of Ghosts. So we are no longer surprised by the presentation of his new novel.
Nothing more disconcerting than a disappearance to launch a narrative. A matter on which Joel Dicker may base his new novel but that only in authors like Paul Trembay do we know that the matter is going to involve something much darker and deeper, any kind of influence of evil that may have dragged the missing young Tommy.
The boy's mother, Elizabeth, knows of the unfortunate event while the police continue to turn to the place of the disappearance, very close to the mythical Devil's Rock.
The problem is that Tommy may not be in a place accessible to the most instinctive investigators. When a ghostly image of the boy (it reminded me of that dying boy in pajamas scratching at the window in the movie Salem's Lot) begins to pass through the streets of the town, the idea of an inconceivable curse spreads among the neighbors.
The only one who can discover clues about what happened is her own mother, Elizabeth, who, amidst the general misunderstanding, senses that her dreams contain messages.
Saving her son Tommy turns into a nightmare that will seek the limits of maternal love, which will confront her with all imaginable demons in a struggle between evil and love, because only love can tend a pulse to hell.
In Tommy's room, in the pages of his diary ... It seems as if there was a possibility, an option to receive instructions from his own son who had already anticipated his fate, or to take the leave of returning to that diary to leave annotations.
But time is short, that is an undoubted feeling for Elizabeth. Only fear paralyzes and blocks. Getting to Tommy and freeing him from his curse can end up leading to too high debts ...
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