A review by florinoakenshield
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

wow wow wow. i picked this book up bc i thought it was a horror story, and i wasn’t wrong! my first memoir and it was about queer domestic abuse. i loved how informative it was, and diverse in its prose. my favourite part was the choose-your-own-adventure segment (it wasn’t really, which was the point) and the majority of this book being second person pov was surprising but also really helped get me into her story. my ginormous ego did start to think that this could never happen to me, but then i really started to think about it and maybe i wouldn’t be the victim (too flighty) but i could be an abuser - HORRIBLE TO SAY I KNOW! but i think that reading this story about the woman in the dream house really opened my eyes on how my behaviour truly affects people i love. if i love them, then how could i hurt them? pre-dream house flo would believe that, but post-dream house flo knows better.
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