Definitely not what I was hoping for. It's not as creepy as Booklist & SLJ wanted me to believe, for starters. Our main character is supposed to be 11 but reads about 8, and the rest of the characters are straight out of central casting. Brief chapters are probably supposed to increase suspense but instead just break up the story into choppy fragments. 
 It doesn't really go out in my library, and now I know why.