The Wild Girl - Kate Forsyth

★★★★☆ The inner monologues and flashbacks are as incessant as ever with King but they are a price worth paying to get so far into these characters' heads. The more you learn about the Torrances, the less their plight at the Overlook feels like simple bad luck. It starts to feel as though they ended up at the hotel because they were so perfectly poised to be its playthings. This sense of inevitability cranks up the dread to the point where animal-shaped garden hedges became something so alien a...