After Kris’s husband is killed in an automobile accident, Kris takes her daughter Sadie to spend the summer at her family’s lakehouse. Kris hasn’t been back to the lakehouse since her mother died when she was ten however she knows it will be a perfect place for her and her daughter to recover from the loss. But the lakehouse is not the same as Kris remembers. Not only is it is run down and in bad shape, but something sinister lives in the house, something that has been waiting all these years for Kris to return.
I was looking for something scary and eerie to read for the Halloween season. I had seen this book recommended by other readers so I checked it out of the library, ready to be spooked.
Unfortunately, this book was a bit of a disappointment. I didn’t find it scary or eerie. This is not really a spoiler because I think it is evident from the summary, book title, and cover, but the lakehouse is haunted by the ghost of a young girl named Violet. Sadly, I didn’t find the ghost story compelling. In fact, I’m not sure I even understood it. There were a lot of things in this book that had me questioning where the author was going with some plotlines.
This book is definitely a slow build. Nothing even remotely supernatural happens until about page 200 (the book is over 400 pages), and then we get little bits of supernatural stuff here and there until the end of the book. Seriously, it felt like it took so long for things to happen and then all of sudden the book resolves in the last 30 pages. For me, it felt like there was no suspense because everything was just so drawn out.
Like I said, I did not think the ghost was scary or creepy or fearsome or any other description of a ghost. Honestly, I just did not understand the ghost story. Were we supposed to believe that Kris created the ghost because she was lonely after her mother died? Because if so, all I can say to that is “Huh?” Was she supposed to be an imaginary friend that came to life? I have so many questions.
I know it seems like I didn’t like this book. It’s not that I didn’t like it, I just had different expectations for it. This one was a miss for me.
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