Clark's life shatters when a crazed zealot kidnaps his daughter, Sadie, from their small Pennsylvania town days before Halloween. Clues lead Clark and his wife to a hidden cavern deep in the state forest. But before he can save her, Sadie disappears into a reality-bending vortex. Bewildered and heartbroken, Clark vows to find his daughter no matter the cost.
When a mysterious phone call promises Sadie's location—and delivers him a new, reluctant ally in Tara Sako—Clark's quest becomes a race against something far bigger than one missing girl. A cosmic entity is spreading, warping reality and infecting everyone it touches, and every mile Clark drives brings him closer to an answer he may not survive learning.
Can he save his daughter before the entity defiles reality forever?
This was a really enjoyable effort with a lot to like about it. The immensely impressive storyline here, focusing on the main charging arc of the search for the abducted daughter and her connection with the guy holding her to use as a part of a plan to unleash a cosmic being held in another dimension to be released in our world, and the quest to stop it from happening, creates an intriguing setup to go forward with. The different aspects of the story, from the story to take her captive and disappear into the dimensional vortex that is hidden away in the underground cave to the race to get her out while the gradual reveal of the interstellar plan comes to fruition, helps this all incredibly well as it gives the story some grounded mystery as well as sets up the incredibly thrilling second half that allows this to turn fully into cosmic horror.
That second half, exploring the series of attempts at bringing this entity out of the dimension and spreading across the planet, spends a lot of fun here bringing everything together from the first half. This is given a grand scale to the action that evolves over the later stages as we start getting a handle on the extent of the creature's wrath as it goes about being free in our world, as a perfect payoff to what has come before regarding the setup in the first half. The easy, descriptive writing style helps this out even further, taking conversations or actions in full detail that come together finely enough, add a lot to this one as well, and help to overcome the lone flaw in the relationship that develops with the ally he comes across in the course of the journey. This feels too easy and convienient to get everything spelled out, but that's the main sisue to be had here.
5/5
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