The counterintuitive choice to have flashbacks recounted in present tense, while using past tense for present-day events, along with ominous foreshadowing (“Three years from now, when there are policemen at the door, she will feel afraid”) helps to create an unsettling atmosphere. Suggestive prose (“The stairs that led from the entryway to the second level of the house always seemed to have too many shadows”) enhances the twisty plot as Vera tries to better understand the killings her father was accused of. This is a ghost story, a domestic thriller, a murder mystery, a coming of age story and a twisty psychological horror story all rolled into one. (Bodies were found buried in the basement.) Years after her father’s arrest, Vera still believes the house has secrets to reveal, a belief supported by the chance discoveries of fragments from his journal. Just Like Home was much much weirder than I expected, but I’ve come to realize that Sarah Gailey’s books cannot be easily shoehorned into tidy genre boxes. It gradually emerges that Vera’s father, who frequently reassured her as a child that there were neither monsters nor murderers under her bed, and told her their basement was off-limits, was himself a murderer. Vera must face them and find out for herself just how deep the rot goes.Vera Crowder, the protagonist of this superior novel of psychological suspense from Gailey ( The Echo Wife), returns to her childhood home, Crowder House, after 12 years to reunite with her dying mother, a fraught visit that reawakens dark memories. There are secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder House. He insists that he isn't the one leaving notes around the house in her father's handwriting. One of the book’s opening questions is, how does someone wrestle with the. A parasitic artist has moved into the guest house out back and is slowly stripping Vera's childhood for spare parts. Just Like Home is a vicious and visceral gothic horror story dedicated to everyone who ever loved a monster. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there, beneath the house he'd built for his family.Ĭoming home is hard enough for Vera, and to make things worse, she and her mother aren't alone. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories - she's come back to the home of a serial killer.
"Come home." Vera's mother called and Vera obeyed. With a mood similar to Gillian Flynn, but with.
Just Like Home is a darkly gothic thriller from nationally bestselling author Sarah Gailey, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House as well as HBO's true crime masterpiece I'll Be Gone in the Dark. This is the best book Ive read since the last Gailey novel I read.
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