I think Neiderman implemented so much foreshadowing that the end being predictable was in some ways a foregone conclusion, and especially considering how eerie and atmospheric and unsettling the beginning and middle had been, I would have expected more from the end. At around the halfway to two-thirds point, everything became clearer (to me, at least-I know other readers in my book club who felt differently), so that I found the ending fairly predictable, and a lot less interesting than I might have hoped. I found that the end dragged, although I was pulled along non-stop for the first half of the book. The depravity pictured here is obscene in many spots, and hard to read in some, so the book is an unsettling one. As the book goes further, there's more and more material that will, at least, make any reader raise an eyebrow and feel a bit of shock. For much of the work, the reader questions what's real and what's not, uncertain even if there's a supernatural element to the book, or if it's only a matter of psychosis. Andrews (certainly helping to explain why Neiderman became the ghostwriter for her later books), Pin is an eerie, strange read that revolves around a brother and sister who live with the life-size dummy which their father once used for his medical practice. Gothic in nature, and told in a style similar to that of V.C.
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