Lakewood is a novel that is mainly  centered around our three main characters, which are from three different generations: Lena, Lena's mother's Diziree, and her grandmother Toni, who continues to haunt the story. After her grandmother passing and because of her mother's health conditions, Lena feels the need to step up, take some time off from university and support her mom financially and clear up their debt and out of nowhere she gets sent this letter from a hospital to conduct some research studies in Lakewood.
The premise of the novel sounded so good, and it had such a strong start, but I was let down a little bit by the execution later on. It felt like it would fit the dystopian genre rather than horror (I'm no expert). 
However, I did like how the author incorporated a lot of themes and elements like the issues with the American health care system and the exploitation of people of colour in the USA which was done, in this novel, by conducting experiments that is stripping them down from their humanity and sanity by calling them Subjects and asking to rate every experience on a scale from 1 to 10 as if the things they went through are simply some data to collect and statistics. Also, trying to get them to fit into white beauty standards by starving them and giving them pills instead of actual food and turning our main character's eyes blue for "research" 
All in all, I believe this has such an interesting plot and concept, but the writing style isn't for me.