A review by brett311
Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

dark tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I’m honestly not sure what I just read!  This one is a mind f*ck.  Vera returns to the house her father built because her estranged mother is dying.  Vera has not been home since she turned 18 and her mother kicked her out.  Oh and to complicate things, her father was a serial killer and her mother has been capitalizing on his notoriety by having people tour the house and even has an artist living in their garden shed.  This was a roller coaster, at times it feels to drag on in repetition of description of the house but it hooks you.  I couldn’t put it down.  Gailey does a great job using horror to explore unconditional love.  In her acknowledgments she states: “if you have spent any part of your life thinking that something monstrous was normal or inevitable; if you have lost some part of yourself in the process of looking for a place that feels like home—I hope you know that you have always deserved a better kind of love than that.”
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