You Let Me In

Cassandra Tipp has disappeared. Did she just pick up and leave? Is she dead? Has she been murdered? Did she commit suicide? From the time of her childhood, she has always been different. She has a friend .. no one else can see him. He's old, ragged, she calls him Pepper-Man because that's what he smells like. He brings her gifts of rotten flowers, dead twigs .. maybe something worse. She has a family history of death. Her husband was found disemboweled years ago. Cassandra was though to have killed him ... but she mounted a insanity defense with the help of her psychiatrist, who is now also dead. A few years later there is a murder-suicide ... her father and her brother. Was she responsible? Cassandra has left a note and a manuscript. She has a niece and nephew and it is written that they inherit her entire estate ... but first they need to read her story. Mental Illness? Imaginary Friends? Supernatural Lovers? You will need to read her side of what happened all those years. Is Cassandra an abused child the result of a traumatic childhood, the victim of her cold mother and distant father? The spurned wife of a womanizing adulterer? When all is said and done, you will need to make a choice. Believe ... and be safe. Don't believe ... and be damned. This debut novel is something is something like I've never read before. Told in Cassandra's voice, there are enough twists and turns that made my skin crawl. After awhile, I began to doubt what I was thinking. Are all her memories true .. or are they representative of something else ... something deeper, darker? Many thanks to the author / Macmillan-Tor/Forge / Netgalley for the digital copy of this fiction. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.