We Used to Live Here

We Used to Live Here

2024 • 312 pages

Ratings122

Average rating3.9

15

Hm, well, I really liked this in the beginning. It has a strong hook and it plays on a lot of very real fears like not being able to trust your own mind and having guests at your house literally ever. I'm a sucker for an epistolary novel so that also worked for me, especially since there was the little message to decode. But it all ended up adding up to...what? I don't mind horror that doesn't explain everything, but there were so many things unexplained, some of which didn't even seem connected to the main plot. Like, what was the deal with the dude in the cabin? WHY DID I HAVE A MORSE CODE TRANSLATOR UP ON MY PHONE TO DECODE THAT MESSAGE?

That being said, maybe I just didn't connect the dots because my brain is soup? Who knows. Either way, I liked more than I didn't, and there were some genuinely creepy moments, so I would read more by this author. 3 Mandela Effects out of 5.

August 3, 2024