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Where You Depart
233 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 20, 2026
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May 11, 2026
This book reminded me of Iain Rob Wright cursed manuscripts hell train. Loved that book and this book was pretty good too!
Hoping on a train with the intent to get off at your stop only to find out that your stop is you reap what you sow. The stops are coming for the passengers. One by one their trip is cut short and they must face their dark secrets.
Such a good read!!
Hoping on a train with the intent to get off at your stop only to find out that your stop is you reap what you sow. The stops are coming for the passengers. One by one their trip is cut short and they must face their dark secrets.
Such a good read!!
May 4, 2026
Ruth is on the run. With only a half plan in her mind, and fear of discovery clouding her every move, she finds herself on a mysteriously hidden platform in Edinburgh Waverley, and the train is coming.
The train is full of people with something to hide and even more to regret. The platforms are filled with the mournful damned, the walking dead, and covered in blood.
And I know what you’re thinking: no, this isn’t the Cross Country line.
Where You Depart is a fast-paced story of damnation, humanity, and the cost of morality. Each stop in the story is unique, harrowing, and full of neat prose with just the right amount of tension and description balanced very well together.
The characters had me hooked, just when you think you’ve got them sussed, everything you know is turned on its head. The antagonist is elusive, mysterious, and morally grey, which I loved. The train is almost a character in its own right, an almost Eldritch creature who keeps the plot moving in more ways than one.
Perfectly controlled, the story arcs take you on a journey as a reader just as much as the characters, as backstories reveal more of the characters, and you find yourself drawn into the dark tunnels ahead, waiting to see what lurks in the shadows.
This story is unlike anything else I’ve read for a long time: cosmic, hellish horror with realism and supernatural elements in total harmony: and the ending? *chef’s kiss*
The train is full of people with something to hide and even more to regret. The platforms are filled with the mournful damned, the walking dead, and covered in blood.
And I know what you’re thinking: no, this isn’t the Cross Country line.
Where You Depart is a fast-paced story of damnation, humanity, and the cost of morality. Each stop in the story is unique, harrowing, and full of neat prose with just the right amount of tension and description balanced very well together.
The characters had me hooked, just when you think you’ve got them sussed, everything you know is turned on its head. The antagonist is elusive, mysterious, and morally grey, which I loved. The train is almost a character in its own right, an almost Eldritch creature who keeps the plot moving in more ways than one.
Perfectly controlled, the story arcs take you on a journey as a reader just as much as the characters, as backstories reveal more of the characters, and you find yourself drawn into the dark tunnels ahead, waiting to see what lurks in the shadows.
This story is unlike anything else I’ve read for a long time: cosmic, hellish horror with realism and supernatural elements in total harmony: and the ending? *chef’s kiss*
May 8, 2026
What a book! The story puts you on the edge of your seat from the first page. A girl living with an abusive father, kills him by pushing him down the stairs when fighting him off. That's the start! She runs away, fearful of being caught, goes into the underground train station and stumbles upon a train on an abandoned platform. She jumps on, and discovers that this is no ordinary train. The passengers on there are being forced to face their demons, and then made to pay for the wrongs they've done in their lives. There's a dark turn in this book that made me cringe in all the ways a good horror novel should make you cringe. Go read it. And enjoy the ride. Five stars.
March 29, 2026
I had the privilege to read this one before release and it's a great, creepy little tale, reminiscent of the best and weirdest episodes of The Twilight Zone.
What Murphy does so well here is both make the situation so strange while being rooted, believably, in such a mundane setting. The characters, too, live and breathe on the page, and their reactions as the many and various horrors unfold are what roots the reader and suspends the disbelief as you roll onward to the final destination.
What Murphy does so well here is both make the situation so strange while being rooted, believably, in such a mundane setting. The characters, too, live and breathe on the page, and their reactions as the many and various horrors unfold are what roots the reader and suspends the disbelief as you roll onward to the final destination.
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