Here's the plot of the book:
- Penny is an elderly woman
- One day she falls and hits her head
- Penny goes to a care facility
- Things may or may not be as they seem
- Nothing happens for a while
- Penny dies

That's it. I would like my cheque from Colesnotes now.

This is the first Ian Reid book I've read and come away disappointed from. The book is fairly short and the use of blank space serves to amplify the issue. I think the idea was supposed to be that the blank space represents Penny's fading memory. Instead it ends up feeling like the author is wasting time.

Regarding the horror/ mystery aspects of the book I don't think that we were given enough information to be intrigued. It wasn't hard to follow, it was just a bit of a lame duck. For the longest time my guess was that the big reveal was going to be that Penny was already dead. But there was no big reveal. Shelley is the closest thing you get to having as an antagonist. Does she have some strange obsession with keeping people alive? Maybe. There just isn't enough book there to let me shade in the answers.

On the positive side it was refreshing to see Ian Reid try something new, even if it didn't work for me. I believe writing Penny would be a real exercise in compassion writing.