The plot of this book grabbed me immediately because I loved the idea of tech and horror meeting in the middle. However, the plot mentioned on the book seems to have taken a backseat to everything else that happens and becomes a metaphor for something else. I still enjoyed reading the story and really liked the build up.

You know when you read a book and the mystery or conflict starts to build up and bubble over the surface and you grow more and more excited to see how it will unfold or resolve? Then you reach the conclusion and it just doesn’t pay off or work? Then you feel like you wasted all this excitement for nothing? That’s how I felt when I finished this book. It was written very well, but it just didn't live up to what I expected and I found myself disappointed when I reached the end.

THIS PART OF MY REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS:

This book starts off with the plot of a seemingly haunted apartment gaining access to this world’s Siri-like device or the device itself being haunted. But the book begins with the death of Vera, Thiago’s wife. The plot of the book made it seem like Vera would survive at least the beginning of the story, so I was thrown off. As I kept going, it became kind of apparent that the book would focus on Thiago’s grief and I was ok with that. I struggled to like Thiago’s character and just found him unlikeable. 

I enjoyed the buildup of the story, but disliked the ending. It seemed like one of those horror books where the real horror is something that is super realistic. The real horror in this book? Grief and what it can do you. The ending seemed metaphorical and I believe that Thiago succumbing to the chef or the wall was him succumbing to grief. And Vera’s mom dying kind of made it more clear before I got to the ending because she was struggling with Vera’s death as well. Not a bad book and it is written well, but the ending was unsatisfying and I found myself annoyed. Also poor Brimley😭