A LABYRINTH OF A BOOK, you absolutely cannot guess the next scene, and after a very long time, I’ve finally found the book that made me go on a spiral.
I finished it in 4 hours, DID NOT BLINK (mostly) so much to a point that I may have hallucinated some stuff too, bleary eyed, sleep deprived, but pushing through with the pure fuel that is this plot and the need to get to the end of this. And after a busy month of no reading, this is exactly what I wanted.
It started off by ticking the usual haunting house checklist, Call it a forever home,
House Flippers,
Dumbwaiter,
Hide and Seek,
Sleep Paralysis etc.
But this is where the similarities end, it’s not a ‘haunted’ house, oh no, not as simple as that, it’s like falling through a hole where the surrounding continuously changes. Think Wandavision where you flip the channels real fast.
It’s not overly descriptive, doesn’t go into too much detail but doesn’t omit either, the author trusts the reader to understand and also to dig deeper, because like I always say a good book/movie/show keeps you up looking more into it and talking about it nonstop to friends and family.
Never in my life have I read a book between fingers closing my eyes. It’s scary but not in the traditional way of scary. It’s the ‘what is lurking around?’, the uncertainty and eeriness of it all that is.
DON’T READ THE SYNOPSIS, go into it blind but spoiler, the dog is fine.
P.S I am also realizing I’m into ‘Haunted House’ like books.
I previously enjoyed Home Before Dark by Riley Sage r (loved it cause it was similar to the Haunting of Hill House netflix ver) and The Grip of It by Jac Jemc, this was okay, very eerie, and then The Grown Up by Gillian Flynn, can’t talk more about this without spoiling it.
If you made it this far, I GENUINELY NEED MORE SIMILAR RECS!
by 3amdreamer_1004