Published by Penguin Audio Genres: Fiction, Gothic, Horror, Mystery, Paranormal, thriller
Format: Audiobook
Who Says you can never go home again????? Home should be a safe place. But what if it’s not? What is home is where your demons lay in wait? Home is a haunted place, a place that haunts your mind, your body and your soul????? Rachel Harrison has done it once again! She has delivered a chilling, thrilling, horrific, creepy, and hard to put down book that will get under your skin. I had a hard time putting down Play Nice and loved every single page of it.
Clio Louise Barnes, a stylist and influencer, must face the demons of her past when she returns to her childhood home which is haunted, or is it possessed???? She moved there are a child with her mother, and sisters, Leda, and Daphne. Her mother, Alexandra, claimed that the home was possessed by a demon. Was it? Was their mother mentally ill, as the courts determined when they removed her daughters from her care?
Clio is determined to makeover the house as her viewers watch. She gets the creepy crawlies being back in the house where she suffered so much trauma and lived a dysfunctional life. When she finds a book left behind by her mother, Clio’s memories begin to come back.
Rachel Harrison excels at creating a creepy and eerie vibe. She had me wondering what was real and if the house was in fact haunted/possessed. She also excels at creating doubt, tension, and unease. Did her mother really have mental health issues or was she on to something? Is Clio experiencing what her mother experienced or is she being influenced by her mother’s writing and being back in the house where she was traumatized as a child.? What role does memory and trauma play in our lives and how we experience things?
This book was awesome. I loved the writing, the well thought out plot, the characters, and the eerie vibe of the book. I love that this book is horrific but not gory. Plus, there is a little romance thrown into the mix to keep things on the lighter side as well. As I mentioned it gets under your skin and will have the hairs sticking up on the back of your neck. I loved the dread, the unease, and the emphasis on family. Families can be messy, they can be dysfunctional, they can be contentious, and they can be wonderful. Families can haunt us just as houses can.
Dark, eerie, chilling, dripping with dread and dysfunction. Highly Recommend.
I listened to the audiobook and loved every second of it.
