Author: D.M. Pulley
Book Name: No One’s Home
Release Date: September 1, 2019
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Genre: Suspense/Thriller/Ghosts
Overall SPA: 3.5 Stars
Blurb: Margot and Myron Spielman move to a new town, looking for a fresh start and an escape from the long shadow of their past. But soon after they buy Rawlingswood, a foreclosed mansion rumored to be haunted, they realize they’re in for more of the same…or worse.
After a renovation fraught with injuries and setbacks, the Spielmans move in to the century-old house, and their problems quickly escalate. The home’s beautiful facade begins to crumble around them when their teenage son uncovers disturbing details of Rawlingswood’s history—a history of murder, betrayal, and financial ruin. The Spielmans’ own shameful secrets and lies become harder to hide as someone or something inside the house watches their every move.
As tensions build between the family members, the home’s dark history threatens to repeat itself. Margot and Myron must confront their own ghosts and Rawlingswood’s buried past before the house becomes their undoing.
Main SPA Evaluation Areas:
Characters: 4/5 Stars
Believability: 3.5/5 Stars
Personal Opinion: 3.5/5 Stars
This definitely has a creepy vibe, but it wasn’t quite what I was expecting.
This spends a lot of time bouncing between time periods and the families that owned the house during those periods. While you get those ghostly elements throughout, the focus is more on the family dynamics of all of these really dysfunctional people and how ugly humans can be to each other and themselves.
If you are like me and need to find connections to characters, you may find this difficult because there really weren’t too many that were very appealing. That said, you aren’t exactly supposed to like most of them for this story anyway.
I think this was pretty well written and lovers of the creepy, sort of scary types of stories may get more out of this than I did.
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