Hmm. I liked this more for the info about apples than the plot itself. Is that necessarily bad based on the author’s note at the end? Maybe not. 

I don’t know how to feel about this except maybe a bit put out. I don’t know if I like Wendig’s style. It’s not gripping or scary to me. Mostly, it was a lot of apple puns and things that were just plain funny/silly/stupid.

Apple Monsters. The Apple Eaters. Just lol.

And then there was gore, but that didn’t make up for the lack of scary. 

I wish we had gotten more about Golden and the man in white. I did not like Calla. I did not love Emily. The rest of the characters were just ok. The plot felt like it was stretched out to the point of breaking and we didn’t have any real good catharsis or resolution. It ends kind of how I expected and it was very lukewarm. 

TLDR; if you like Wendig’s humor and style, you’ll probably like this, but it was just meh for me. Mostly now I just want apples.