From the author of You Must Not Miss comes a haunting contemporary horror novel that explores themes of mental illness, rage, and grief, twisted with spine-chilling elements of Stephen King and Agatha Christie.
Following her father's death, Jane North-Robinson and her mom move from sunny California to the dreary, dilapidated old house in Maine where her mother grew up. All they want is a fresh start, but behind North Manor's doors lurks a history that leaves them feeling more alone... and more tormented.
As the cold New England autumn arrives, and Jane settles in to her new home, she finds solace in old books and memories of her dad. She steadily begins making new friends, but also faces bullying from the resident "bad seed," struggling to tamp down her own worst nature in response. Jane's mom also seems to be spiraling with the return of her childhood home, but she won't reveal why. Then Jane discovers that the "storage room" her mom has kept locked isn't for storage at all - it's a little girl's bedroom, left untouched for years and not quite as empty of inhabitants as it appears....
Is it grief? Mental illness? Or something more... Horrid?
My Review:
Reading this book was really fantastic! I would read, be totally immersed in this book, look at the page count, and had read 50 pages in like 20 minutes. It was just such an easy book to read, and I loved reading about Jane and her story!
Reading this book was really fantastic! I would read, be totally immersed in this book, look at the page count, and had read 50 pages in like 20 minutes. It was just such an easy book to read, and I loved reading about Jane and her story!
At the beginning of this book, there was a skipping rhyme or something at the front. And instead of chapters, we would have sections, each one a line from that rhyme. And those lines were a bit indicative of the tone of that section. Which was a different way of telling this story, which I enjoyed!
I was a bit conflicted about liking Jane. On one hand, she's a book lover, she's a mystery reader. On the other hand, she eats pages from books to calm down her rage. And it's like, no, don't destroy the books! But it was an interesting part of the plot, and bigger than I thought it was, really enjoyed how that all connected!
Oh, man, that ending! It was just creepy and atmospheric and everything you could want in a spooky read if you are a seasonal reader and it's fall. It's a pretty unsettling ending, and I'm not quite sure who was telling the truth, maybe all of them told parts, but Horrid is a fantastic name for this book!
This book was a different but awesome spooky book, and I really enjoyed reading it!
Author: Katrina Leno
Read: October 22nd, 2020
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: It sounded really good and I enjoy her writing, and it's a SAC 2020 Book!
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young readers
Published: September 15th 2020
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