A review by thedailydiva
Model Home by Rivers Solomon

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

5.0

5 stars. Point Blank. Insta-buy Author!

Ummmm, dear Rivers Solomon, please forward a billing address for my next three therapy sessions! Please and thank you!! 

I will read ANYTHING Rivers Solomon deigns to write. I will read the scraps from their writing room floor. I will happily puzzle together the ripped offal from their literary mind! I think I have found my literary spirit person!! 

Ok. After all that praise, I cannot recommend this book. 

It is dark. It made me uncomfortable. It made me cry. It made my stomach churn. It made me ask, ‘Why tf did I read this?’. It made me sit uncomfortably in my non-understanding of gender nonconformity. It made me hurt for any character this broken, and haunted. I have never encountered characters like these and I’m ok for a good long while. They hurt me. I couldn’t handle their trauma. 

This book is one of the best and most chilling haunted house stories I’ve read. It’s giving demonic, ‘the call is coming from inside the house’ vibes. 

I need to read a comedy now…