Wait Until Twilight by Sang Pak

Title: Wait Until Twilight	Loved it	Graded
Author: Sang Pak
Genre: Paranormal
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Elements: -
Series: Stand alone

Not long after his own mother’s death, sixteen-year-old Samuel discovers a set of deformed triplets hidden behind closed doors in his sleepy Georgia community.

The babies – whose shut-in mother believes they were immaculately conceived and whose menacing brother is a constant threat – take control of Samuel’s every waking and sleeping thought. His only escape, he realizes, will be to save the monster children.

But to do so, he must rein in his darkest impulses as he undergoes a profound transformation from motherless boy to self-defined man – because sometimes the most terrible monsters are those that live inside us all.

Coming of age stories aren't my thing. Especially not one which has stark scenes of cruelty, even though they were necessary for the development of the book. That's not to say that this isn't a good story. It was haunting, especially seeing Samuel battle both his inner and outer demons. He was courageous, and he was compassionate, choosing to help fix problems that weren't his own to begin with.

When we first meet Samuel, he's a little bit lost, losing his mother and having to deal with family members who choose to deal with their grief separately. The story really starts with a school assignment for Samuel. He's supposed to make a video for school, and he decides to find out the truth about the town's urban legend: a trio of monster babies.

Wait Until Twilight made me feel a lot of discomfort and the emotional conflict was more than I could bear, which says a lot for the author's talent for writing vivid scenes and telling a haunting story.