This is the story of Marjorie, a 14 year old girl who starts to display problematic behaviour. Is it mental illness or something else? A psychiatrist doesn't seem to have helped, so her father, turning increasingly towards his faith, brings in the local priest who believes she may be possessed by a demon. Told from the POV of her younger sister Merry, we watch the gradual unravelling of the family as they seek to understand what is happening, even resorting to being filmed for a reality TV show. It remained ambiguous as to the cause of Marjorie's behaviour; her explanations for it varied between believable and far-fetched.

There are a few nods to horror films (an obvious one being The Exorcist) and other horror writers (and even one to Mr Tremblay himself!) which he explains in his extended liner notes at the end of the book; I enjoyed reading these.

After I DNF'd Dark Voyage, I wanted another Kindle book to read, so I used my TBR Jar and pulled out the prompt 'blue book'. Looking through my Kindle options I had a few, and I chose this one. After reading a couple of chapters, I realised that I could listen to the audiobook with one of my Audible credits (I need to use them up so that I can cancel my subscription), so I've partly read and partly listened to this. I have to say, the audiobook is quite different from the kindle version, there's a lot more of Paul and Bob just chatting. It loosely follows the format of the book, but it's certainly not word for word. I didn't mind that though, because listening to these two just nattering about fishing and generally being a bit silly is actually quite relaxing!

I really wanted to like this book, as it's the first in a series of five, I believe all set in Scotland (I'm not sure if they're connected). I made it to page 30 but I just couldn't get past the awful dialogue, it felt so stilted and wooden. This, in turn, made it very hard to even begin to like or get a feel for the characters. It's a DNF, and I'll be removing the other books from my TBR list.