My Goodreads review: Willy

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Willy by Robert Dunbar

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


A young boy with serious emotional (and/or mental) problems is unceremoniously dropped off at a school for "last chance" cases. The campus is foreboding, the staff is unfeeling, unhelpful, or just plain creepy, & his roommate is nowhere to be found. All he has to keep himself company is his journal, which some former counselor urged him to write in as often as possible. So he does . . . throughout a series of increasingly disturbing events, and a friendship which threatens to either save or utterly destroy him.

Telling more than this would involve spoilers, and this is much too remarkable an experience to spoil. Lovers of classic horror, quiet horror, the Gothic, or the weird should put this concisely & lyrically written novel on their "to read" lists immediately.





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