A review by abbie_
I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There by Róisín Lanigan

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my free digital ARC!

Exit Management by Naomi Booth meets Paradise Rot or any other drippy, mouldy, nasty little horror book you’ve read recently. I really liked this one a lot, it kept me hooked, played on my own anxieties, and felt like a modern horror novel for the renters’ age. I liked the way Lanigan played with very mundane, real fears like dodgy neighbours, uncaring landlords, mould, and merged them with a tinge of the supernatural. It results in a novel that’s unpleasant to read at times, which is the intended goal.

The ending let the book down as a whole for me. There’s an awful scene with a dog that made me too sad - please leave your dogs out of the horror 😭 The tension had been ramped up all the way through, like a balloon overfilled with air, and I was expecting something more akin to a pop, but instead it was like all the air just slowly leaked out.

I’d say the rest of the book is still strong enough that I’d recommend it, but yes, I did want something else from the ending.