📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Beneath the Stairs
AUTHOR: Jennifer Fawcett @jenniferfawcett_author
Publisher: Atria Books
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐢
Published: February 22, 2022
The Review 📚 Beneath the Stairs
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- The summary made it sound like a different kind of haunted house book, which it definitely was. Thanks to @this_is_edelweiss and @atriabooks for allowing me to read this ahead of publication.
💜 What I liked:
- The story is told in 4 different time periods: the 1930’s, 1965, 1998, and the present. The stories are linked by the house. And let me just say that this book is truly creepy. Most of this story is really propelling you forward to figure out what is really going on. Even in the dreams of the main characters, the house doesn’t leave them.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- There are a lot of open-ended questions after reading this book. And while this probably makes the house that much more creepy, if you need problems to be buttoned up beforehand, this book will not give you that. But I recommend just reading it anyway and being prepared because it is worth it.
🚦 My face at the end: 🤪
💭 4 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Mysterious house
- 2. Nightmares
- 3. Generations of terror
- 4. Sounds at night
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Clare and Abby explored a house when they were young, and it still follows them into adulthood. What has happened in this house and how can they return to a peaceful headspace?
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Edelweiss.
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📘 Summary 📚 Beneath the Stairs
A woman returns to her hometown after her childhood friend attempts suicide at a local haunted house—the same place where a traumatic incident shattered their lives twenty years ago.
Few in sleepy Sumner’s Mills have stumbled across the Octagon House hidden deep in the woods. Even fewer are brave enough to trespass. A man had killed his wife and two young daughters there, a shocking, gruesome crime that the sleepy upstate New York town tried to bury. One summer night, an emboldened fourteen-year-old Clare and her best friend, Abby, ventured into the Octagon House. Clare came out, but a piece of Abby never did.
Twenty years later, an adult Clare receives word that Abby has attempted suicide at the Octagon House and now lies in a coma. With little to lose and still grieving after a personal tragedy, Clare returns to her roots to uncover the darkness responsible for Abby’s accident.