DNF.

I could not get into the story itself and the characters felt very cookie cutter. I feel that from the synopsis, the story had potential. But it was not as intriguing as the synopsis made it seem. With some reworking, it could be a great book.

Markert is being called the next Stephen King, and the cover of this book certainly invokes one of King’s biggest hits, It. Harrod’s Reach was built around a train tunnel, which is now a crumbling ruin. After a child named Sully, is seriously injured in the tunnel, the townspeople decide it’s high time to brick it in. Deputy Beth Gardner has never put much stock in the creepy folklore surrounding the tunnel, but now she’s discovered two bodies near the entrance, each left with a lullaby on their corpse. Sully comes out of his coma just long enough to tell his brother that his consciousness is still in the tunnel, in an alternate world controlled by a monster. A monster that does not intend to stay walled off from Harrod’s Reach