Many thanks to Netgalley and the publisher/author for providing me with an ALC in exchange for my honest review.

OMG!!! This book was exactly what I wanted it to be! I loved it. I will make sure to check out other books by this author. When I requested this I was just intrigued by the concept of it and I loved how it turned out. This story had a great plot and if you have read this and enjoyed it, This was so much. It was such a great story. I would say give this one a try. I will continue to follow this author. Way to go to this author for not letting me down.

I highly enjoyed the narrator of the audiobook. Kept me listening.

DNF - I can’t deal with the way this is written right from the start. Paragraphs run on and don’t make a whole lot of sense and the wording is really weird. For example: “The windows sagged with a strange morose quality as if years of chagrin had settled into the very bones of the structure and forced those windows to have a permanent frown. They sat too heavy.” I’m sure there a a lot of better ways to describe what the author’s trying to convey, but it’s confusing and I can’t get into it because of it.

Such a strange and twisty tale of Amy. This a non linear story that is sometimes hard to follow and tell what’s real and what’s not. I wouldn’t Say it’s horror per say but definitely had creepy moments. I will Check out more work from this author.

Thank you to NetGalley for a copy of this title in exchange for my Honest review.

Whoa! What a ride. It was very fast-paced. The writing style kept me hooked and I didn't find myself losing any interest. I enjoyed getting to know each of the characters and how real the story felt. The author did a great job painting the setting, so it was easy for me to visualize the scene played out before me. I recommend giving this one a chance!

As soon as I saw Alice in Wonderland Syndrome I knew I had to read this book and I wasn't disappointed. It was well written with a compelling and thought provoking storyline and characters that were relatable and believable. I loved it and cannot wait to read more by this author.

Thank you to the author and NetGalley for the review copy of In Between.
I really was not a fan of this book. To me it was very confusing. The main character, Amy, bounced back and forth between past, present, “in between” and most of the time it was hard to tell what was going on.

This book had an interesting idea, but the development of it was less than stellar. It was hard to listen to a term like Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS)without thinking how silly and cheesy it sounds. The syndrome is also known as Todd's syndrome and dysmetropsia, both of which lend it a more serious and believable weight. The layout of the story bugged me. The main character is sitting and keeping her father there to tell him the story ofher childhood with AIWS, even though he knows it all because he was there. And supposedly he's a negligent father , yet he sits through her hours of telling this story he already knows, with it's accusatory tone. Doubtful. The idea is there, the story could be good, it just needs to be presented differently.

“In Between” is an unexpected, interesting read, with an unreliable narrator. The reader must pay attention or can quickly become astray.

A sincere thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for providing me a copy of “In Between” in exchange for an honest review. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to read this story and leave my review voluntarily

Completely absorbed from the very beginning. The writer is amazing at drawing you into the story. The characters are likable and DM Sciliano developed a fantastic wonderland for them to live in. I have already read it twice.

A darkly lyrical tale of life, death, and those caught in between, fascinating… I found it difficult to put the book down. Instantly and completely immersed me in another world!

Thank you so much to BooksGoSocial and NetGalley for providing me with an e-ARC; it is greatly appreciated.

This is one of those books where you might not fully understand what the hell was happening, but it was still an enjoyable time. You have to think and pay attention while you're reading here, or you can easily get lost in the plot. The main character, Amy, is an unreliable narrator, so the reader learns truths as she does.

The writing in this book is so vivid and colorful. I could easily picture the scenes, and I rather enjoyed the way they flowed into each other. As a reader I felt as confused as Amy did, so it's easy to understand Amy's emotions and reactions. You truly go on a journey with Amy.

It is common for books like this to have an ambiguous ending, but that actually is not the case here. We find out exactly what happens to everyone in the end, and why it happened. (Although that part is definitely the most confusing aspect) You need to go into this story with an open imagination, and I can see how this book won't be for everyone, but it's a solid entry in the genre.

uhmmm you know those movies, in where you cant really full understand them during the first watch? Well this is one of those books/movies, this for me was a perfect match of the movie “the father” with “the others”, in the father you have the world through the eyes of the father but he has dementia, and what you see is not exactly what you get, in the others well you get a bit of this other realm but in reality it is us or them? Yeah, just like these movies, this book gets real and messy, what is real, what is not, what is time, I do have questions, but usually when I finish a movie or book like the ones I talked before, I need to rewatch for them to make sense and I probably will need to read this book again to make more sense of the kind of loose ends (we need to remind ourselves that she has a difficult mental illness, so she is an unreliable narrator, and that is kind of the poetry of this book).

I highly recommend this book for the fans of unreliable narrator books, because what they tell you is not what is really taking place.

Thank you NetGalley for this free ARC and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I really wanted to love this book because I greatly enjoyed an earlier book by this author, however it wasn’t to be. The story did keep interested enough to keep reading, mostly in hopes I would fully understand everything that was going on. I kind of understood everything by the end, and in some ways I kind of didn’t. Sound confusing? Good, because confusing sums it all up pretty well. I did learn that Alice In Wonderland Syndrome is an actual disorder, and for those that deal with it I hope that this book brings helps others understand what you deal with as the author describes life with. AIWS very vividly.
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I literally had no idea what was happening through most of this book. So much information having to be condensed into 112 pages seemed very weird and almost felt wrong. I’m still not sure what happened in the end.

The characters were odd, to say the least. I didn’t understand what the relationship with Amy and her father was…and for him to call her crazy all those years but he knew exactly what she was seeing and why? I also don’t understand what happens to Lainey, Amy acts like she died but never truly said what actually happened to her?

Honestly, the premise was interesting. I was excited to read this until the events actually took place. I still don’t understand the whole Dark Man plot line or how she is him or whatever.

Such a great read. I was fully submerged into every single word. Was so hard to tell what was real and what wasn't. Loved the intense feeling and build up this book had. Truly enjoyed it!

This was a refreshing take on a horror novel. It’s psychological which gets me every time! It makes the boogeyman come to life. The use of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome intensifies how confused your mind gets which makes the story so much better! I can say without a doubt I did not see that coming! It takes a lot for a book to surprise me, but this story had me guessing until the very end.

Being inside Amy’s mind makes me think of the phrase “we are all made here” and that is exactly how you will feel trying to piece together the life of Amy. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ psychologically thrilling stars. Make sure you have a whole day to devote to this book because once you start you will not put it down.

Special thanks to netgalley for my arc on exchange for an honest review

Amy can see and experience things that her family supposedly cannot perceive... With the aim to make peace with herself, her childhood, and her family before her child is born, she returns home to meet her father...

Amy has Alice In Wonderland Syndrome... Amy can exist in the In Between... And the lines between her surreal realities can blur in the fraction of a second... Time is non-linear, some fragments playing out in an endless loop... Amy is looking for answers... Amy wants to know what is real and what is not... Amy wants to know why...

The reader is swept along with Amy while she talks to her father, in the present and the past, as she recounts her experiences to him... She wonders if he knows, what he knows, and how much he knows...

The writing is almost poetic in its flow, gripping and grim simultaneously... And though I'm not sure if I found the answers, Amy does find her peace...

The horror genre that I knew to fear as a young reader & the one I grew to read salaciously as an adult has found itself transformed into something that I cannot understand. I do not know who these horror stories are for. I cannot believe that these are actual horror stories. That being said, I understand & appreciate that fear - horror - is subjective. What might entomb me with dread might leave someone else with a ribcage overflowing from laughter. One can look on any visual representation of horror & understand the technicalities that are required to present objectively scary things in a way which will leave the majority with quivers.

Literature does not differ from film in that respect. Objectively, ghosts are scary. An author can dress-up a phantom in whichever way they desire but their efforts need to be obtainable to the reader; one needs to feel no distinction between the transpiring story & their own reality. Part of inducing fear is ensuring that a person feels present in events. If a demonic, faceless, shadow figure is standing at the edge of a young child's bed (such as in this book); we should be reading about the scene as though we were either the child or, an onlooker, stuck in a frozen state unable to provide aid.

This story takes the approach of including a neurological disorder, Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS) & having it be the crux at which the horror strikes. I am always weary of reading books in which a character is experiencing, shall we say, mental unease. I am not someone who is personally or professionally in a position to make remarks on the authentic representation of neurological disorders, therefore my comments should be recognized as coming from someone who read through this book without personal or educational weight to back my impressions & opinions. With that being said, I'm tired of this approach.

This book begins with a scene in which Amy, the main character, is sitting alone at home with her cat. In so few pages it becomes apparent that Amy is under a significant amount of mental duress. This is a person who is nine (9) months pregnant & is constantly experiencing things that she cannot link to previous experiences. I appreciate that most human beings have some level of forgetfulness but, the number of times Amy says that something feels familiar but she doesn't understand why, became ridiculous.

As a person who has not been 9 months pregnant I'm going out of a limb by saying that this is probably not the ideal time for you to go to your family home wherein you experienced what you claim to be parental negligence, to confront your estranged father about childhood events that you cannot accurately call to mind. The priority should be the well-being of the child you are about to bring into the world not your desire to seek-out the ghosts you believe live in that home.

I couldn't find it within myself to engage with this book. I wouldn't say that I actually properly finished it as I grazed over the repeated bouts of information & found myself focusing on the actual conversational dialogue in hopes to see the story advance. Even having done that, the need for substantial editing was obvious. There were so many instances where phrasing made no sense; grammar rules were ignored or not adequately checked. Was there a proof-reader for this? As well, structurally many things saw us walking in circles. Amy would say: 'dad' only to not be able to say so the very next sentence, as though for the first time, because it didn't feel right. The character were in short, directionless.

We spin round & around with the same things over & over again. Amy longing for a physical response from her father; her father being non-emotive; we understand enough about this character to gauge his actions, we do not need to go over this again. This is repeated several times throughout the book for different things.

On a parting note I will say that this story would do well in a visual format. Should the story find its way into the hands of someone who could make it into a movie I truly think it would excell. Substantial tweaking would need to be done to the core of the story & Amy's character would need to be developed further so as to make her appear as a well-rounded adult. Regardless, I could appreciate that with the right directorial skills, this would be a hit.

All in all, I am disappointed. I asked myself in my introduction who this story is for & I do not have an answer but I know it's not me. 

Thank you to NetGalley, BooksGoSocial & D.M. Siciliano for the free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

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In between the two realms – the moral and the ever after one – lies a place one might imaginatively call…oh, I don’t know…In-Between?
This short novel (or is it a long novella’s) protagonist has been stuck in that place for a long, long time, since she was a child. Now, that she’s an adult about to give birth to a child, she decides to sort this out once and for all and goes back to her father, to the place where it all began.
This is the sort of story that can either be described as hauntingly lyrical or dramatically overwritten, depending on the audience and their mood. For me, it was the latter.
The writing was technically good, but there was way, way too much meat on the insubstantial and not wildly original bones of the story. It might have been more effective as a short story or a shorter novella. I’m not sure. As is, though, it dragged, in a slow dreamy sort of way, fading in and out of reality but never quite landing into a place where it made me care about the story or its protagonists.
The author certainly has a talent for descriptive writing, but she goes way, way overboard with it. At least, for my liking. User milage may vary. Thanks Netgalley.

I really loved this book, it really emphasized to me how much our surroundings can have an influence on how we all perceive the world through differing lenses. I would really recommend this book to anyone who enjoys paranormal thrillers as well as mysteries.