I really love this author's work and this was, as usual, pretty great. Creepy and with emotional depth. I can recommend this to all readers, regardless of their prefered genre.

This was once again creepy greatness by Jennifer McMahon!! The story was wonderfully written and I enjoyed most of the characters. I normally shy away from anything to do with demons and possession. That being said, I only picked this up because I love McMahon's previous books. This was a tough read with hints of child abuse and alcoholism for our main character Ali. She perseveres then makes a fatal mistake and pays the price for sure.

One of my favorite horror authors, Jennifer McMahon has written another page turning, well written, scary novel.
However, how do I rank it when I think the main character an idiot? Ali has a fantastic life, a husband and two children she loves dearly, a best friend who understands her, a growing career in art, and yet she throws it all away because she’s naive and doesn’t understand that definition of insanity which states doing the same thing over and other and expecting different results is crazy.
When she gets the call her estranged mother is dying wanting to spend her last weeks with Ali and her family, Ali actually moves her in as her brother screams not to do it. This is the mother who physically and emotionally abused Ali and her brother all their lives, torturing their bodies, leaving their backs and psyches scarred. In front of Ali’s family she’s kind, when they’re alone the vitriol she spews at Ali is just the same. Why Ali does not throw her out at the first sign of this behavior drove me crazy. Instead she keeps using the excuse her mother is ill, surely she doesn’t mean what she says. By the time Ali finally realizes her mother is not really her mother it’s too late. Her children, husband and best friend think the problem is Ali, not her mother, and no one will believe her.
I realize there’s no book without the “ going in the basement alone when you know there are monsters” syndrome, but Ali drove me crazy. Which just goes to show how well the book worked.

If Jennifer McMahon’s name is on the cover, you know you need to cancel anything else you have planned because you won’t be coming up for air until the last page. In her latest, Alison learns that her estranged mother, Mavis, has terminal cancer and only has weeks to live. Her dying request is to spend time with Alison, her husband and their children. Alison has too many bad memories of her mother’s drinking and abusive behavior, bur she reluctantly agrees, hoping her mother can pull it together, here at the end of her life. The woman who arrives appears to be Alison’s mother, but strange, otherworldly things begin to happen around her. Is this really Allie’s mother? If not, who has she allowed into her home? Nobody does creepy, literate suspense like McMahon