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COTN really tunnels deep into the dark places of human nature. 15YO Bobby is a first-class Dublin hooligan--mean, unrepentant, selfish & hard to like. Hoping he'll reform, his mother, who's hardly better, takes him and his little brother Dennis to a quaint cottage in a quiet Irish village away from her creditors and the temptations of mean city streets. Bobby slowly uncovers the murderous history of the house they rent and confronts his own demons which, trust me, come to seem pretty average compared with the dark things he discovers in and about this house and its former inhabitants. I could have done with a bit less of Bobby's delinquency which becomes a little boring, but the last 40 pages of this gripping book and what it has to say about evil in human nature will resonate with me for a long while.

2023-07-13 06:02