I'd had this in my Kindle cloud (freebie) since 2021. Trying to pick more dark/tense/mysterious reads for spooky season, I went glancing through my Kindle library to see what jumped out at me (yes, totally judging a book by its cover, and then its Goodreads rating and whether or not it's available in audio ...). This had audio on Hoopla and good ratings, so I pushed it to the top of my TBR.

Two timelines ... I really wish in the Table of Contents, it included the Now (2017) and Then (2007) instead of just generic chronological chapters.  And even though the chapters were marked in the headers, I think I would have preferred more distinction ... like the "present" in present tense, and the "past" in past tense. I'm so often stopping/starting my book, coming in mid-sentence, mid-chapter, and sometimes it was hard to determine if it was the present or the past without going back to the beginning of the chapter to check the heading. 

Ironically, as I'm concentrating on "seasonal/spooky" books for October, I read another recently with a very similar theme [book:Ghost Mortem|51941234] ... Near death experience, and now can hear their friend who has been murdered, does detective work to solve the murder. Ghost Mortem was much more light-hearted comedy though (matching its cartoon cover). 

This was a tad convoluted ... SPOILER

just the fact that there were SO many people out to get likeable young Colby. One set that beat him up, one that finished him off. The whole polluted water thing was big, to have been covered up so well ... and yet still, to the point of murdering family?

The paranormal element was pretty mild.

ProFanity x8. Some sexual content (in the past/between teens), nothing explicit/spicy. 

First in a series, and while I liked this, I'm not hooked enough to continue on. There are just SO many books waiting on my TBR.