A review by bluejayreads
Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

dark

3.75

I asked my husband how many times it was appropriate to use the phrase "fucked up" in a review, and he said as many as I need - and this book needs a lot of them. This book is weird and very dark. It's also legitimately good horror - so far in my horror-reading experience, it's one of only two books (the other being Dead Silence) where I had to intentionally drag myself out of story immersion to keep from getting too scared. It is also an incredibly fucked-up story about a spectacularly fucked-up family. You can tell at the beginning that something really bad happened in the past, but the more you learn, the more fucked up it is. It's told like a puzzle. Flashbacks give pieces of whatever happened, and though I guessed the rough shape of it fairly early, the details are essential, and you don't get enough pieces to put together the whole picture until the very end. Whatever you suspect, you probably aren't going to guess the sheer depths of fucked up that this story reaches. It also reaches some pretty deep depths of weird, too. The ending is strange, good, and horrible, and made me feel like maybe there was something else here that I didn't quite understand. I'm still not entirely clear on how I feel about this book, but it is most definitely remarkable (in the sense that there's a ton of weird and fucked up stuff to remark upon). 
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