A review by stacys_books
No Doors, No Windows by Joe Schreiber

4.0

Scott Mast comes home to his New England hometown for his father's funeral and ends up staying when he strays across a horror story manuscript his father started and never finished. A failed writer himself, Scott stays in Round House, the house that the book is about, in order to finish the manuscript. But his writing awakes strange happenings in Round House (the house that apparently drove his father crazy) and now that he's off his antidepressant medication, he's wondering if he's crazy, too. Complicating matters is his five-year-old nephew, Henry, who desperately wants to come live with Scott in Seattle due to his own father (Owen) being a lush. The death of Scott and Owen's mother fifteen years prior in a fire haunts the two men and overshadows their relationship, but Scott soon learns that nothing in his life—including his brother—is what it seems.

If you like haunted house stories, this could be your thing. Schreiber lays on the pathos a little thick, but that doesn't make for any less of an engaging read, and there's nothing too gruesome. (I tend to dislike books that overdo "the grossout.") I read the book in two days—always a good sign for a book in the horror genre.