My Never Ending List

There was so much to like about this book. I loved the creepiness of the book, the setting of the book and all the characters; they really made the book so enjoyable for me.  The main character is Jack who is ten, has Aspergers, never goes outside and basically has one friend, Nick.  That’s pretty much Jack.   A beach incident with Nick has left Jack scared of going outside so Nick and Jack play together inside as they consume an activity before moving on to another one.  Right now that activity is drawing and Jack has taken up drawing monsters and Jack’s monsters are pretty intense.  Jack’s really getting into his monsters with details while Nick has the laid back approach to his sketches.  When strange things start to occur and mysterious sighting arise and disappear before anyone can investigate, I started to wonder what exactly was causing the problem. How could so many things happen so frequently and why?  Snow was beginning to fall at the beach house, whoever they were seeing was running around naked, or at least it seemed that way.  Naked in the snow?  Only Jack seems to know who they were and what they wanted and at first no one wants to listen to his explanation.   Jack’s mother feels she needs to gain control of the situation so she enlists the help of a priest.  This lady must have been watching some scary movies in her day, as she doesn’t waste any time seeking out help and she knows exactly where to go for issues like this.   The pieces start to fall into place but not before things start to get intense.

The snow is falling at the beach house and we have individuals trying to track footprints in the snow, a shipwreck off the coast and all the other mysteries that surround this location had me loving the mystery of this setting.  The sights and sounds that go with this picture, I thought it was perfect.  Then we have Jack.  The boy with many issues who lived within himself.  He was passionate about his monsters and he was intense with his drawings, they really meant something to him.  He needed to have a relationship with Nick because that was his only outlet for him.  The more Nick spent time with him, the more Nick realized things about Jack and he realized he didn’t know him as well as he thought.  This was a fast read and one that I could not put down.  I loved everything about it except maybe the ending.  Some books you want a happy ending and some you are okay with an open ending, but this one, why end it like this?
Thank you NetGalley for providing a copy of this book for me to review.