By: Sarah Pinsker
Publish Date: September 3,2024
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group/Tordotcom
General Fiction (Adult)/ Sci Fi and Fantasy
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Book Review:
I really enjoyed this book. I gave it 4 stars. I didn't realize that this book was a horror novel. I guess I should have with the title. I really wasn't scared which is a good thing. At about 65% I figured out what was going on but it didn't stop my enjoyment. This is a short book with about 176 pages.
This book is about a TV reality show. It is about haunted house, and a team of people come in and interview the owners of the new to them homes. There are several mentioned in the book. There is a day crew and a night crew. The night crew are the ones who really do the filming. The star of show isn't around much so the crews are the ones who deal with the owners the most. The star is Jeremy and one of the night crew is his cousin Mara.
Mara is a mess. She is the youngest in a big family and she doesn't know what to do with her life. She is in her late twenty's and still hasn't figured it out. She has been back and forth with college and odd jobs. Her cousin offers her a job on his show. She takes him up on it. She isn't sure at first what to do but she learns quickly. On her first job she is in an apple orchard doing her job when she stumbles over a dead apple tree. She decides to start carving on it to help pass her time. When the job is finished, she chops down the part she is still working on and takes it with her so she can work on it during the weekend.
On the next job she is sent outside to do something for the show, and she meets Jo who is a float for the day crew. They start to become friends. One day the owners of this show decide they don't want to finish the project, so they back out of the show, and this gives the crew a long weekend. Mara decides to head home and ask Jo to come along. Jo agrees but during this weekend they end up having a fight.
After the long weekend they go onto the next job which is a small castle like home. It has a beautiful library. Mara is told to work in the library and Jo is there to help again. They kind of makeup but Mara isn't sure who Jo really is and starts asking the other crewmembers about her.
Things go on from there, but I really can't talk about them because it would give it away. I had fun reading it and seeing the growth that Mara makes is worth it.
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