05 Jun Another Great Review of Hate House
Readers are loving Hate House!
“Wow what a book! Unpredictable, original, haunting, twisty, heavenly written – I’m running out of positives and it’s no accident: this is a high-quality horror read, imaginative and horrifying, with gorgeous cover art and highly competent editing. Not to mention the superb story that never goes the way you think! You’re bargaining for a haunted house kind of tale, you’re getting a thriller; you’re going for that thriller vibe, you’re falling into urban legend rabbit holes; you’re thinking you’re reading a supernatural story, you find yourself diving into myth. And the ending! After being thrown so many curveballs, I thought I had it and just expected proper closure – heck no! You gotta play the last hand yourself.
The premise itself is genius: “spite houses” may be built to irritate and offend a neighbor, but what about “hate houses”? Built in order to express the owner’s hate, they serve their purpose in many different ways. Here they set up a grand tale of malice and resentment, of enclosure and claustrophobia, a tale that spills into a female private investigator’s life, transforming it into an unrecognizable mess of madness and horror-laced persecution. Oh, and there are cats; lots of cats! And crabs. Huge amounts of them.
I couldn’t have enough of this book! The moment I realized it would go on even after it’d apparently reached some sort of closure, I couldn’t hold back my joy!
Highly, very highly recommended!”
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