4.25 Stars
We Are for the Dark was hard to put down. How convenient for me that I often have a baby napping on me, and therefore have a good excuse to sit still with my books for a while.
Starting out as a thriller, it takes a little while before tension turns to dread and the genre shifts more and more towards horror, but the constant feeling of unease ensures that it never gets boring.
Some revelations were predictable, but thankfully the main plot and mystery was not. Wanting to find out exactly what is going on on Bale Island kept me turning the pages, and the climax does not disappoint. My only slight complaint would be that I personally found the ending slightly questionable.
I would highly reccomend this to anyone who likes religious thrillers/horror and isolated settings where everyone seems to be in on a terrible secret except you.
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