The Women in the Walls
by Amy Lukavics Book Review by Miranda Moses (Fraser) ISBN: 978-0-373-21246-0 I really think Kendare Blake summed this book up perfectly, "unsettling from the first page". I have yet to come across a book in the Halloween series that has truly bothered me. I mean reading this was so unnerving that I refused to read it until my husband was home too! That alone makes this my favorite book so far in the 2019 Halloween Book Review series. Amy Lukavics has a few books out now, two of which have won awards. I will DEFINITELY be looking for her novels in next years series! To begin with, this novel is about a seventeen year old girl named Lucy Acosta. A very prominent last name. A lot is expected of her family- the women in particular. Something Lucy and her cousin Margaret mock heavily. They could care less about the country club pompousness. But when her aunt Penelope goes missing everything else starts to fall apart around the girls. Margaret in particular takes her mother's disappearance hard and she starts to unravel mentally. She insists on spending time in the attic claiming to hear her mother whispering to her through the walls. But when Lucy begins hearing voices herself she has to uncover the truth about the secrets of her home and the women in her family. Now, that's just the basic gist of what this story is about. But from the very first page we're walking into death and creepy scenarios. This book is loaded with gore and terrors. It was very easy to get sucked into this story and end up on the edge of my seat- easily scared by noise in the real world around me. I had goosebumps and at times a lump in my throat. Amy does not hold back on the death, gore, or creep factor. Everything happens FAST so be prepared to go from 0 to 100 REAL fast. And when you think you got it all figured out- TRUST ME, YOU DON'T. The ending was unlike anything I've ever come across in my life. I was truly sitting there going, "WHAT!?" over and over again. In conclusion, this book is definitely not for the faint of heart or the younger readers who have issues with gore, death, suicide, and self harm. I recommend this book more for the older readers looking for something harder than Hahn or Pablocki, but different from Stephen King. I am really glad I found this author. And honestly, while my head is still spinning at how the hell the book turned out the way it did.... I can't stop thinking about it. Now I wonder what surprises her other novels hold. Read on my fellow book worms. May we one day have Belle's library. As always links to the author's pages can be found down below.
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