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Trying not to be suspicious about the vaguely Christian subtext paired with the fact that the protagonist's big struggles are framed as being the emasculation of the husband and the fact that the wife is both gay and didn't want to be a mom. Feeling a little "dissolution of the traditional family brought back the forest demons" to me.

I am not immune to <spoiler> changeling narratives </spoiler>

Wow, everyone in this town sucks! I do love a good complex and somewhat unlikable protagonist, and both Rachel and Finn kind of fit that bill, and their toxic sludge of a marriage is.... messy, but compelling. I wish we could see more of Charlie. The kid POVs swap off between being very good and kind of stilted.

Unfortunately the mystery and horror is not very effective to me personally.

If this plotline with Charlie is going where I think it is I will be sorely disappointed. Not because its bad but because the tropes used make it a bit predictable, which undercuts the horror of it