In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must contend with the long-ago disappearance of his childhood best friend—and the dark secrets lurking just beyond the safe confines of his picture-perfect neighborhood.
The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul de sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. During the night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again.
Thirty years later, Ethan has reluctantly returned to his childhood home. Plagued by bad dreams and insomnia, he begins to notice strange things happening in the middle of the night. Someone seems to be roaming the cul de sac at odd hours, and signs of Billy’s presence keep appearing in Ethan’s backyard. Is someone playing a cruel prank? Or has Billy, long thought to be dead, somehow returned to Hemlock Circle?
The mysterious occurrences prompt Ethan to investigate what really happened that night, a quest that reunites him with former friends and neighbors and leads him into the woods that surround Hemlock Circle. Woods where Billy claimed monsters roamed and where a mysterious institute does clandestine research on a crumbling estate.
The closer Ethan gets to the truth, the more he realizes that no place—be it quiet forest or suburban street—is completely safe. And that the past has a way of haunting the present.
What I liked about this story... If it sounds right to say, I had such fun reading this novel. The best part, by far, was the actual mystery. What happened to Ethan's best friend, Billy. So many scenarios ran through my mind and were even suggested throughout this novel, but the ending was one that I certainly didn't guess. I loved the ending. With this story there is a whole cast of characters with different points of view shown, which is not normally what I get along well with in a novel, but I really enjoyed meeting all the characters and getting different viewpoints. I felt that it added a lot of depth to the story and made me really want to root for certain characters.
What I loved about this story... I would have loved to have been surprised a lot more in this story. I guessed most of it apart from the ending, to be honest.
Would I recommend... Absolutely. This is a fun, entertaining, slow paced story that doesn't necessary have a lot of massive twists and turns but enough to make this fun.
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