Published by St. Martin's Press Genres: Fiction, Horror
Format: ARC, eBook
These Familiar Walls is equal parts chilling, shocking, thrilling, atmospheric, horrific, and spooky! Woohoo! This is how you do it! C.J. Dotson had my attention from the very first page! Plus, talk about a jaw dropping shocking reveal!!!!!!!! I did not see that coming AT ALL! Whew! What a SHOCKER!
This book is told in two timelines, 1998 and 2020, and both are intriguing and intense! Usually when there are two timelines, I tend to enjoy one more than the other. I actually enjoyed both timelines equally. Both timelines have shocking and thrilling moments!
In the 1988 timeline, readers are introduced to Amber, her younger sister, Hannah, and the new boy who moved into the home next door. Amber is lonely and hopes to make a new friend with her new neighbor and to say that their relationship is chaotic is an understatement.
In the 2020, Amber’s parents are murdered in their family home. Amber inherits the home and moves in with her husband, Ben and their two children. Soon, Amber will find that These Familiar Walls that she grew up are quite eerie, spooky, creepy and chilling. She begins to experience strange things. She hears whispers, strange reflections, and experiences creepy sensations. She is not the only one in the home who experiences these things.
First off, I would have been out of there so fast it would make my families head spin! Haunted Houses freak me out. Home is where you are supposed to feel safe. I wondered how do these people sleep at night with all this eerie and spooky crap happening? But they stay and HOLY CRAP, I was not prepared for the suspense and shocking reveals that came at warp speed toward the end of the book!!!!!!!
Hats off to C.J. Dotson, seriously, hats off. So well done, so well thought out! So clever, so shocking, so spooky, and so eerie! This book was oozing with creepy vibes, dread, tension, and dread!!!
Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
