About The Book
Young house-flippers Charlie and Eve score a great deal on an old home, but a family’s unexpected visit triggers eerie events. When their child goes missing and strange presences appear, the family won’t leave, and Charlie soon disappears too. As Eve’s grasp on reality fades, she begins to question what’s real and what horrors the house may hold.
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My Rating

I’m not quite sure what to say about this book—it wasn’t as scary or compelling as people claimed. Still, it was weird and unlike anything I’ve read before. Sadly, the plot didn’t captivate me at all. I’m always down for a good strange, psychological thriller unfortunately, this book fell so flat and bored to me at times. OK, it bored me most of the time.

It was such a hard book for me to get through, and I don’t exactly know why because the plot was interesting. In the first few chapters, I was really wanting to know what was going to happen. We have a main character, Eve, who is a bit socially awkward and shy. When a family appears on her and her girlfriend’s doorstep, claiming the father once lived there, she lets them in—but things quickly get weird.

The setup makes you want to keep reading to figure out what the family is really doing there and where things are going to go. But by the 20% mark, I found myself not really caring about the story or the characters. There were some interesting moments here and there, but overall, I felt like I was just pushing myself to get through the book.

“Get them to leave. Whatever means necessary…”

The story didn’t scare or shock me at all. I had a lot of questions throughout, hoping they’d be answered by the end, but I felt like none of them really were. It seemed like the author added many elements to make the book stand out or feel different from other horror novels. However, some things didn’t flow together, and I couldn’t understand the overarching plot. Maybe I just prefer straightforward horror, and elevated horror isn’t my thing.

That said, I did like the main character’s development throughout the book. She starts off shy and passive but grows increasingly suspicious, strong, and determined. I think the author was trying to make her somewhat of an unreliable narrator, but I never truly felt she was. I was on her side throughout the entire book.

Overall, this isn’t a bad book, but it’s far from the scariest thing I’ve ever read. I don’t really understand the hype behind it. I’m not sure if my issues were with the plot or the writing. It might have been the added mixed-media excerpts that felt unnecessary. Nevertheless, it’s not a book I’d recommend to other horror lovers. And let me just say, the ending truly frustrated me.

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Until The Next Chapter,
Bunny