Here's the hard truth: I have no idea,” he says. “Well, I have some idea, but the answer has less to do with anything I did.”

From Bram Stoker Award finalist Eric LaRocca, this is devastating, beautifully written horror from one of the genre’s most cutting-edge voices. After the death of his father and his mother taking off, it becomes clear to Ben that the only thing he can count on, is no one to count on.

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This story was interesting. I wouldn't say this story had a twist. As she's slowly slipping into madness and desperation from missing her son Olive thinks the man that shows up is an angel here to save them. I didn't understand then how she ended up pregnant because I'm assuming that James couldn't get her pregnant. So the angel got her pregnant? But then when she crossed him by changing his room he made her lose the baby or were these things really miracles? It doesn't make sense then for the angel to take them. Were they going to die from a gas leak and that was when he was going to take them? I left with too many questions. I really liked the conversations between Martyr and Ambrose, my fav ones were the difference between scary and disturbing and that everything contains plagiarism in some way.

YOU'LL FIND IT'S LIKE THAT ALL OVER is the weird tale of a man who finds a bone in his yard. The bone leads him down a strange path, involving the man's racist spouse and his foreign neighbor. It also involves a lot of betting. Sounds weird, right? This tale is so off beat, yet completely satisfying. Therein the problem lies with me and weird fiction. I like weird, but I also want a conclusion to the story. For me a lot of supposedly great weird fiction stories have fallen flat..sometimes it's like there's no story at all. It drives me crazy. That is not the case with Eric LaRocca.

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I have so many thoughts on this book that I struggle to figure out where to start. I am so sad to give yet another Eric LaRocca book two stars, because he is genuinely such a great writer and a sweet person. And parts of this book were really wonderful… but unfortunately, for me, the sections I did enjoy were spread so far apart that they, in my opinion, were not enough to salvage this book.