John Marrs, shows why you should always check the attic before you buy a new home:
Mia and Finn have fallen on some hard times that have forced them to move in with Finn's parents. To say that Mia and Debbie, Finn's mother, do not get along is an understatement and Mia wants out of the house as soon as possible. When a home comes up for sale, Mia and Finn jump on it and are determined to turn it into their dream home. As they are renovating, they come across some a strange message written behind the baseboards in one of the rooms "I Will Save Them from The Attic". This leads them to investigating the attic and making a gruesome discovery. Mia becomes obsessed with what they have found and wants to make some of it right out of it, she needs to in order to cope. Secrecy shrouds everything in the attics but the more she investigates the more she realizes that the threat of danger is not just in the past but the present now. She will do whatever it takes to protect her family, but what if it is too late?
I absolutely
Loved loved this book and I think it is one of those books that you will either
love or hate it as it deals with darker aspects, downright creepy, insane and
well just F*ck up. However, I will be fair and say that the beginning of this
book i was not sure about it, I was kind of waiting for things to happen and I
will say that they do not happen quickly at the start of the book. Wow, this
book was fantastic, full of suspense the entire way. This is how you write a
domestic suspense book. This book is extremely dark and if you have triggers
involving children in any way shape or form, then do not pick up this book.
Marrs does not go into great description about what occurs to the children, but
there is enough there that I could see it triggering people.
I
really enjoyed the different timelines and POV as this added to really get to
know each character, what is at stake as well as add to the atmosphere of the
book as you didn’t know what Marrs was going to reveal next. Plus you get, the
now famous i think, Chapter 39 that is just one word. I like how the darkness
is not just in one timeline but is spread throughout both, but just in
different ways. It is always interesting when there it POV of the bad guy and
this one has that as a constant POV. You really get to know the main characters
in the present POV, Finn, Mia, Debbie and Dave, and their personalities and
motivations and who they are as people. You cannot help but feel sorry for Mai
at several points in the story, especially with some of the vindictiveness that
Debbie puts her through. Very much an hellish mother in law.
I
was able to figure out who the killer was fairly early on but there were so
many twists, turns and revelations along the way, that I don’t even care that I
was able to figure it out early on, Marrs was still able to shock me constantly
throughout the book. Like the shocks just keep coming until the end of the
book.
Without
giving much away, if you find the beginning slow push through, I promise it
will get better and more twisty the further you read. This is the second book I
have read by Marrs but I am going to be picking up his backlist as well as the
new books he releases. Highly recommended book, especially those who like the
darker side of things.
Enjoy!!!!
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