Yeah, I actually got to the big moment when Julian vanishes and kept expecting something else to happen based on how much foreshadowing there is, so the end of the book came as a surprise. I wanted the book to be about twice as long and have about 2-3 times as much consequence and reaction and explanation for every creepy incident.

I just felt like they didn't coalesce into enough of a narrative for me to feel much about the story as a whole? Like, normally this genre of horror does benefit from not seeing the monster directly, but the glimpses we got all seemed to point in totally different directions and I wanted some sense of how they fit together.