This was the must read book for 2020 and no not just because of the popularity but because it's RILEY SAGER and many of us who are die hards know his work and love it!
Imagine if you will sitting at home with over 120 NetGalley digital ARC's waiting for your company on the lonely TBR shelf and this gem plops on your list with a message," Will hold for 3 days."
Well, I didn't just run to it - I dropped all prior commitments -to get my hands on this e-read copy from Cloud Library.
I've heard many compare this book to Final Girls yet I disliked Final Girls but I loved his others and this for me was right up there with Lock Every Door!
It had everything you want but with more of a paranormal type of creepy skin feel not only with ghosts but hauntings and certainly with the multiple pov's that struck me down.
First up, Megan Holt's inheritance is this lovely haunted house with the alarming news to not go there ever again after her father's passing.
The second version is told by the father Ewan right before his marital separation when Megan was just five years old.
Baneberry Hall has so much to tell because every house has a story to tell. Boy, if the walls could just talk....and the man doing the talking was the father who was subsequently writing it all down as "The Book."
What's bizarre is the fact that Maggie's recollection of the reason they left so suddenly has varied from her own family's and this causes angst and anxiety.
The feeling that there's something much larger scale lurking around is dreadful and leads readers to this land of make believe that feels so real.
Do you remember the Alfred Hitchock movies with that gothic vibe, that sense of illusion, that dramatic character portrayal?
This brought me to that Bates Motel in which he was ahead of his time crafting a new thriller that may be seen through multiple lenses but all pointing to one fact- Riley is BACK!
One thing readers can be certain of is this is not a waste of money or time. This thriller incorporates everything you seek in one bang up job!
Three types of ghostly images...secret compartments and hidden histories, multiple deaths, connected plot reveals, and twisty suspenseful pulls from every angle or shall we say corner of this house.
DEFLECT SUSPICION!
Smoke and mirrors is great but those monsters....May not be monsters after all!
Sometimes what appears to be isn't all it's cracked up to be in the end.
Cover ups, lies, blame, shame, and more is covered in this new epic dynamo and folks I may have had to wait till early July to get my copy but it was worth the wait.
Thank you Bibliotheca for this e-read copy as you truly made my day after the declines and exclusions.
Dutton we need to chat. DM me. :)
Please run don't walk for a copy of this one! A must read for 2020!
“Grief is tricky like that. It can lie low for hours, long enough for magical thinking to take hold. Then, when you’re good and vulnerable, it will leap out at you like a fun-house skeleton, and all the pain you thought was gone comes roaring back.”
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