It was a very fast read - start and finish in two days (without really trying).
It was an interesting read, I hadn't expected the supernatural aspects of the book - much of what I get from my daughter are the John Green stories of young/teen biographical stories.
I did like the mix of supernatural into a small town environment, with a young boy seeing what is happening through naive eyes. The basic storyline is that a border in the young boy's house is found a few km away at the end of a lane, having stolen the family car and committed suicide.
The boy accompanies his dad to recover the stolen car, a seeming joyride dropoff. However, they discover the dead man in the car. A young girl (a few years older than the boy) comes out to take him away from this crime scene and into the house near the abandoned vehicle. The first evidence of supernatural is the amount of details this girl, her mother and her grandmother know about the victim - the seem to know his "story" (he apparently took his money and money he was holding for others and gambled it all away in an evening of poor choices), and referred to a note in the vicitim's pocket which hadn't yet been found (and even implied that they "pushed" the investigating officer to look in the correct pocket).
The boy then becomes involved for a short while with the family and their unusual existence, becoming immeshed in one of their adventures.
Not sure if this book is part of a series, or "world" where the details might be more relevant or revealing, but the book did stand alone as a quick summer read.
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