A gripping, fast read, with marvelous prose and all the best elements of both ghost story and psychological horror. The south Florida setting and cultural elements are particularly well drawn, as is Hilton's descent into a man his family and friends don't recognize. Only the ending was a little anticlimactic to me; I felt that there were problems raised over the course of the novel that weren't ultimately resolved.

I received an e-ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Hilton, the main character of The Between is seven when his grandmother dies for the first time.
He finds her dead on the kitchen floor, but when he comes back with help, Grandma is alive and up on her feet. The grownups try to explain it away as a simple fainting spell, but Hilton can remember very well just how cold her skin was. She is never the same after that, and a year later she dies for the second time, giving her life to save Hilton from drowning.
Years later, when he is married with kids and has a stable job, Hilton is haunted by nightmares that start to blend in with reality. As they get more and more unsettling and disturbing, Hilton realizes that there’s a real, lethal danger threatening his family, and he has to find a way to save them before it’s too late.

Wow, I am truly blown away! The Between is an incredible and deeply scary book that mixes the supernatural with reality in a way that feels frighteningly plausible. Hilton is a complex character and although he has his faults, I couldn’t help but root for him. Watching him transform under the weight of his nightmares was agonizing, and the way Due masterfully pulls the reader into Hilton’s descent into madness had me on the edge of my seat, constantly questioning what I thought was happening. I also loved that the threat was coming also from the outside - the racism that Hilton’s family experiences is terrifying on its own, but it was perfectly interwoven with Hilton’s nightmares. I simply could not stop reading this book until the very last page, and I won’t say too much about the ending other than it was perfectly satisfying.

The Between is a brilliant and heavy read, and I think anyone who considers themselves to be a Stephen King’s fan will positively fall in love with this one.

A. great horror story in the vein of Stephen King. The Between is a reissue of Tananarive Due's first novel and it's fabulous.

Hilton James is a soon to be 40 year old father of 2, married to thee only AFrican-American judge in Dade County Florida. As a boy, he was marked by a near death experience swimming in the ocean - a terrible experience that was ultimately the cause of his grandmother's death. It's Hilton's thought that dreams from this experience are haunting him. He is losing time and remembering terrible nightmares that are impacting his work and homelife.
At the same time, his wife begins to receive death threats at work. Hilton is sure he knows who it is and why -he's seen it in his dreams. But are these nightmares or the beginning of a mental breakdown.

Due paints a picture of a lovely. and interesting family. Plenty of characters to root for, beautiful writing, engaging plot and a tense finale. A perfect thriller-horror story for October! Highly Recommended! #TheBetween #NetGalley

This was such an incredibly eerie, horrific read, but I loved it! I loved the combination of the psychological horror with the real life horror of racism and hate crimes. I loved all of the characters, and can't wait to read more from this author in the future.

I hadn't realized this book was getting re-issued, but I'm so excited that it is, and that hopefully Tananarive Due will get her flowers properly in this decade as well. This is a phenomenal, foundational horror novel with great characters and an intense commentary on the horrors of racism. (Now re-release "The Good House," which is a barn-burner haunted house novel...)

A new reissue of what should be an old classic, this book is edge-of-your-seat thrilling. Hilton is a man on the edge of a breakdown, and this book makes you both terror and his tenderness. If you haven't read any of Due's work before, pick up this one immediately.

Due has done it again. A master at storytelling, this novel interweaves traditional African and African -American spirituality into a modern story. Well written and paced. This book is lush and keeps you anticipating!