A review by poisoned_icecream
Six Rooms by Gemma Amor

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Horror books about haunted houses are one of my favorite kind of books, so I was eager to read this. It definitely lived up to what I expected of it. It is about a group of people who got tickets to explore the chateau of a wealthy man and the Tour Guide. Among the guests are a husband, wife and their teenage son, a man wearing a bow tie, a historian, and a man from Baltimore. They are all so well-written that it felt as I were reading about real people. As they are led through the rooms, the guests touch something despite the rule about not touching anything, and each time they do a specific memory of the grisly crime that occurred in that is revealed. The only time I felt bored while reading this was whenever Ned, a man who works at the chateau, thinks about the woman who left him alone at the altar. I really don't care so much about marriage stuff. Anyway this is a great gothic horror novel and I would recommend to readers who like Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House.
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