Reviews - Within These Walls

522 reviews for:

Within These Walls

Ania Ahlborn

3.57 AVERAGE

belovedsnail's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Deftly written. A little too predictable.

amandalove2bme's review

4.0

dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

mryder18's review

4.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Rating: 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Into These Walls by Ania Ahlborn

SUMMARY:

Lucas Graham, a struggling true-crime writer facing personal and professional turmoil, sees an opportunity for a comeback when he's offered exclusive access to death row inmate Jeffrey Halcomb, a notorious cult leader and mass murderer. Halcomb contacts Lucas personally, offering insights from his maximum-security cell. Lucas moves to a farmhouse in Washington State, where the cult's atrocities occurred, to delve into the story. However, he soon realizes he's not alone, as the spirits of Halcomb's followers haunt the house, seeking eternal life as promised by their leader.

MY THOUGHTS 💭

This book was so creepy & I loved it! It reminded me of the Jonestown Massacre and the Manson Family. I also loved the haunted house vibes. The main characters were kinda unlikable but the story was good enough that I didn’t mind that too much.

optimisticbooknerd's review

3.0

3 ⭐️

I love cults, I think they're so fascinating but this one DRAGGED for so long

ghoulsjustwanttohavefun's review

3.5

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

For me, this book started strong but really fizzled out about 80% in.

westernskynaida's review against another edition

3.5

The way I described this book to a friend of mine was “it’s like you’re watching a car crash in slow motion. You know something tragic is going to happen, but there’s nothing you can do to really stop it”

And I said that before finishing the book and…yeah. I can agree with that - for the most part

This is my third Ahlborn book, and probably my second favorite of the 3 I’ve read (Brother being my favorite)

I probably read this faster because the idea and story had me hooked pretty quick. The ending though, fell flat…and is why I took a solid point off because I really just…didn’t care for it

I’d recommend this if someone is wanting to read Ahlborn’s stuff, and maybe you’ll enjoy it more. It having a bleak ending, didn’t really bother me. It was more so the execution…

Ending spoilers

I don’t normally do a spoiler talk with my reviews flat out, but I really feel like the ending for this suffered for a couple of reasons. There was so much build up to Vee being a hypochondriac or possibly having a bad injury for the fall that happened earlier in the book. But nothing really ever came of it. I really thought something would have happened in the end regarding that information… I know Jeffrey has to be the Bad Ghost, but I really feel like there should have been something with her head injury…