Tananarive Due

Award-winning author Tananarive Due's spine-wingling tale of supernatural suspense 'waves a stronger net than ever' (Kirkus Reviews) as a woman searches for the inherited power that can save her hometown from the forces of evil.

The Good House

Boothby

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           Honestly floored that it ended so sweetly

Working to rebuild her law practice after her son commits suicide, Angela Toussaint journeys to the family home where the suicide took place, hoping for answers, and discovers an invisible, evil force that is driving locals to acts of violence.

A Novel

4.5 stars.

This was such an interesting book! It's one of the few horror books that has actually made me feel scared, so that's a huge plus in my book! It starts out really sad and it took a bit to get going, but once it did, SO much stuff started happening. I actually found it a bit difficult to keep up with at times, since it started jumping back and forth in time to explain things, so the story unfolds in both the present and the past. It didn't help that I'm pretty unfamiliar with the kind of magic and spells discussed in the book, so admittedly I didn't catch everything. However, I found it fairly easy to understand overall, once I finished the book.

The only problem I really have with the book is its casual discussion and inclusion of rape and sexual assault. (view spoiler)[Angie's first sexual experience is when she's 13, with a band instructor so pretty clearly an adult, and this is pretty glossed over for the most part. I'm not sure why it was necessary to include, as it didn't add anything to the story. Also, when Myles and Angie reconnect, they have sex twice, then he has sex with her again while she's asleep because he couldn't resist her? And it's supposed to be this romantic thing, that isn't presented as an issue in the text whatsoever? Hell no. There was also a prison rape joke that I didn't appreciate. (hide spoiler)] I will say that had a man written this, these instances would be a lot worse I'm sure, but I still found all of these things highly unnecessary to the story.

Overall, really good book! It felt super long, but a lot of stuff happened so I don't think it got bogged down much, though it took a few chapters to really grab my attention.

Jordan Robinson

Morgan Kinney

These is literally a story where you are shouting at the character to leave it alone.