I've read books from this author in the past and really enjoyed them but the writing style of this book just didn't work for me.
The blurb was intriguing and I thought it had the potential to be really suspenseful, unique and thrilling but overall it just kind of fell flat. I think I probably would have DNF'd this one had it not been an ARC.

I would definitely pick up another book from this author in the future, this one just wasn't for me.

Thank you Chuck Wendig, Net Galley and Random House Worlds for providing me with an ARC of this book.

Five high school friends go on a camping trip in the forest, where they find a mysterious staircase leading to nowhere. One friend walks up the staircase and is never seen again. The staircase then disappears.

Twenty years later, the staircase reappears and the friends re-unite to attempt to find their lost friend.

This had the potential to be a suspenseful, thrilling edge-of-the-seat read, but the lengthy conversations and flashbacks interrupted the flow of the plot. Parts of the book were repetitive, like when the friends were moving through the various rooms and their rehashing of the past, without revealing any new information.