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mmc6661's review against another edition
4.0
Could not put down!!!!! Read it in a day, page turning story with good characters. The ending left you with some questions and I used my own assumptions.
dani_thebookdragon's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
gsatori's review against another edition
3.0
No!!!! You gave us a fascinating and eerie setting and ratcheted up the tension. You kept a breakneck pace. It was all coming together so well...
And then you defecated. Were you impatient to end the book? Did you lose a bet? What the fuck?
I won't spoil this for people other than to say the resolution and answers are absurd. Imagine a painting with a yellow dot and the dot doesn't belong---because it's the only yellow on the canvas. The ending falls flat because there's nothing tipping off the reader ahead of time. You don't switch genres in midstream.
This could have been a great novel and I'll read more of your work, but accept my feedback. You can't throw plot elements into a novel without paving the way and laying foundation.
And then you defecated. Were you impatient to end the book? Did you lose a bet? What the fuck?
I won't spoil this for people other than to say the resolution and answers are absurd. Imagine a painting with a yellow dot and the dot doesn't belong---because it's the only yellow on the canvas. The ending falls flat because there's nothing tipping off the reader ahead of time. You don't switch genres in midstream.
This could have been a great novel and I'll read more of your work, but accept my feedback. You can't throw plot elements into a novel without paving the way and laying foundation.
marzipan9's review against another edition
2.0
I was...disappointed. the build up was great, but the ending...felt like a cop out. the only thing worse than the actual ending would have been for grant to wake up and find it was all a dream.
the book was creepy, eerie, wonderful, strange, building up to a horrifying ending that just...never came.
the book was creepy, eerie, wonderful, strange, building up to a horrifying ending that just...never came.
git_r_read's review
5.0
Brother author team Blake and Jordan Crouch hit an on-key scary thriller horror note with EERIE!
The story starts innocuously enough with the Moreton family of 8 year old Grant, his young sister Paige, and their father Jim. They are traveling up to the family cabin in the woods. A car accident changes their lives forever.
Jump forward 30 years..Grant is a police detective with Seattle Police, working a missing person's case. Clues lead him to what looks like a series of missing men and a mysterious call-girl working out of her home in a fancy neighborhood.
Much to his dismay, the mysterious call-girl is his long-lost sister, Paige. She doesn't want to let him into the house, she knows he's there to 'fix her' as she calls it, but there's more to the reason why she doesn't want him in her house.
Paige is involved with the disappearances of Grant's missing men, but she doesn't know what happens to them. The house wants the men for some unknown reason.
And...anything else would be spoilers. Just know that this is a super horror/thriller/mystery. It's a definite read-with-the-lights-on-check-under-the-bed kind of book.
The story starts innocuously enough with the Moreton family of 8 year old Grant, his young sister Paige, and their father Jim. They are traveling up to the family cabin in the woods. A car accident changes their lives forever.
Jump forward 30 years..Grant is a police detective with Seattle Police, working a missing person's case. Clues lead him to what looks like a series of missing men and a mysterious call-girl working out of her home in a fancy neighborhood.
Much to his dismay, the mysterious call-girl is his long-lost sister, Paige. She doesn't want to let him into the house, she knows he's there to 'fix her' as she calls it, but there's more to the reason why she doesn't want him in her house.
Paige is involved with the disappearances of Grant's missing men, but she doesn't know what happens to them. The house wants the men for some unknown reason.
And...anything else would be spoilers. Just know that this is a super horror/thriller/mystery. It's a definite read-with-the-lights-on-check-under-the-bed kind of book.
dyslexic_book_lover's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
litwrite's review
2.0
What I thought was going to be a haunted house tale by the synopsis for the book took a weird left turn into the Science-fiction category. This in itself is not a bad thing, however, the problem is that the twist is so clearly broadcasted that I already knew how the book was going to end when I was less than halfway through.
This is unfortunate because when the characters were in the house it was actually quite scary and claustrophobic, and seemed quite promising. I wouldn't discount Crouch completely, I think his writing style is competent and easy to read and he has potential, but this book wasn't a shining moment for me.
This is unfortunate because when the characters were in the house it was actually quite scary and claustrophobic, and seemed quite promising. I wouldn't discount Crouch completely, I think his writing style is competent and easy to read and he has potential, but this book wasn't a shining moment for me.
storyman's review against another edition
3.0
Eerie is a self-published horror/haunted house novel by the Crouch brothers Blake and Jake. The story starts with a father and two motherless siblings, Grant and Paige, in a harrowing car crash where they all survive, but gain mental scars in the process. Their father is reduced to a shell, living in a care home.
The story swiftly moves into their adulthood where the siblings are now estranged. Grant is a Seattle detective looking for two missing men. Searching reunites him with his sister, now living in a brownstone and making her living from high-class prostitution. He immediately sees that something, apart from her living, is not right with her. Her skin is sallow, her eyes sunken, and she fears his presence. Does she have anything to do with the men’s disappearance?
The book reminds me of Chris Allinotte’s Turn Around short story in his Gathering Darkness collection, where something you cannot directly see follows you everywhere, driving you to madness. Similarly, here something lurks in Paige’s bedroom, sitting in her peripheral vision without ever revealing itself. The authors do a great job of raising neck hairs with this thing, making you read on to find out what it is, and what it wants with the men she services in her room.
You would think the siblings should leave, but it induces intense pain in them if they try, thus trapping them in the house, and the reader with them for the most part. The claustrophobia doesn’t grate like you might expect, but you might find yourself wanting a bit of fresh air. The horror intensifies when Grant invites an old friend, Don, who specialises in allaying people’s fears. Outraged at the invitation, Paige nevertheless agrees to let the man go up to her room, hoping he’s right about her fears being groundless. A few alarming noises later Grant charges up the stairs to see his old friend slash his throat as a result of what he has just experienced. Must be some beast you’re thinking.
The horror contrasts nicely with the siblings’ dialogue, their present tension explained by snippets of information about their past – about how they evaded social services and lived by themselves as kids; how he wanted to protect her and how she resented every second of his care. Now they’re thrown together into this hell, they have to care for each other and deal with the moral issue of protecting themselves by inviting more of Paige’s clients, their pain reducing as the monster does what it needs to the men.
So, a cracking read… spoiled by an ending that might have most readers grinding their teeth in frustration. I guessed much of what the monster is about half way through, and that got me reading right through. I thought it could be interesting, like a riff on the Urscumug in Mythago Wood. However, what actually happens flaws the whole thing. This could depend on your perspective – it is sort of spiritual – but I couldn’t help think “Selfish, selfish, selfish.” It fails to give a satisfactory reason for Don killing himself. This, along with the undercooked romance between Grant and his police partner doesn’t help, undermining what could have been a little corker of a novel.
Overall, I enjoyed reading most of this, but that ending is so disappointing.
The story swiftly moves into their adulthood where the siblings are now estranged. Grant is a Seattle detective looking for two missing men. Searching reunites him with his sister, now living in a brownstone and making her living from high-class prostitution. He immediately sees that something, apart from her living, is not right with her. Her skin is sallow, her eyes sunken, and she fears his presence. Does she have anything to do with the men’s disappearance?
The book reminds me of Chris Allinotte’s Turn Around short story in his Gathering Darkness collection, where something you cannot directly see follows you everywhere, driving you to madness. Similarly, here something lurks in Paige’s bedroom, sitting in her peripheral vision without ever revealing itself. The authors do a great job of raising neck hairs with this thing, making you read on to find out what it is, and what it wants with the men she services in her room.
You would think the siblings should leave, but it induces intense pain in them if they try, thus trapping them in the house, and the reader with them for the most part. The claustrophobia doesn’t grate like you might expect, but you might find yourself wanting a bit of fresh air. The horror intensifies when Grant invites an old friend, Don, who specialises in allaying people’s fears. Outraged at the invitation, Paige nevertheless agrees to let the man go up to her room, hoping he’s right about her fears being groundless. A few alarming noises later Grant charges up the stairs to see his old friend slash his throat as a result of what he has just experienced. Must be some beast you’re thinking.
The horror contrasts nicely with the siblings’ dialogue, their present tension explained by snippets of information about their past – about how they evaded social services and lived by themselves as kids; how he wanted to protect her and how she resented every second of his care. Now they’re thrown together into this hell, they have to care for each other and deal with the moral issue of protecting themselves by inviting more of Paige’s clients, their pain reducing as the monster does what it needs to the men.
So, a cracking read… spoiled by an ending that might have most readers grinding their teeth in frustration. I guessed much of what the monster is about half way through, and that got me reading right through. I thought it could be interesting, like a riff on the Urscumug in Mythago Wood. However, what actually happens flaws the whole thing. This could depend on your perspective – it is sort of spiritual – but I couldn’t help think “Selfish, selfish, selfish.” It fails to give a satisfactory reason for Don killing himself. This, along with the undercooked romance between Grant and his police partner doesn’t help, undermining what could have been a little corker of a novel.
Overall, I enjoyed reading most of this, but that ending is so disappointing.
dharaiter's review against another edition
4.0
It kept me hooked but it wasn't as appetizing and satisfying as Blake Crouch's other works.
librarypatronus's review against another edition
2.0
I don’t even know what this was. I don’t know what I read. Just so disappointing