My first Riley Sager and I really really liked it. I gave it 5 out of 5. I got my copy back in June 2020 thanks to Book of the Month and I finally decided that it was time to read it and I am so glad that I did.
I have tried to stay away from people talking about this and reviewing it because I wanted to go in knowing next to nothing. I only knew that it had a book within a book and I was obsessed with the House of Horrors book. The main character Maggie is an adult and her father just died and she finds out that the house that has identified her and plagued her life is now her property.
When Maggie was 5, her and her parents moved into Baneberry Hall. This is the scary mansion that almost all small towns have who once belonged to the wealthy man in town. Maggie's father wants the house and his wife is against it. She sets some boundaries for her husband that he can under no circumstances research the history of the house and the deaths of the Carver family. Of course he doesn't do that and it is a good concept into a proper ghost story.
The present day sections of adult Maggie going back to the house and trying to remember if stuff that her father wrote really happened or if it was all really bullshit. I was bored and not interested in her story at the beginning, but through the middle, I got more and more invested where I started to lose interest in the House of Horros because every chapter left of on the same cliffhanger.
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