juliereadzintherockies 's review for:

Coram House: A Novel by Bailey Seybolt

4.0

dark emotional mysterious tense

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Novels inspired by true events? I’m all in. Real-life stories fascinate me, but sometimes the presentation falls flat. Not here! "Coram House" is mysterious and eerie.

Set against the backdrop of a Vermont orphanage with a chilling history of abuse, this book follows Alex, a struggling true crime writer trying to revive her career. She takes on a ghostwriting project about Coram House but becomes obsessed with the mystery of a missing boy who seems to have vanished from everyone’s memory. Did he even exist? Is she chasing shadows? I loved how determined she was—digging deeper than the job required.

And when Alex discovers a dead body (yep 😳), she’s convinced it’s connected. The police? Not so much. They think she’s trying to revive her dying career. And the subplot behind her dying career adds a whole extra layer of tension.

What really hit me hard is that this story—heartbreaking and haunting—is rooted in reality. Children were abused by the very people meant to protect them. That truth made the story disturbing and emotional.

Thanks to the author and Atria Books for providing this eARC via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

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