A review by foolishpsychopomp
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

challenging dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I feel like House of Leaves is more about the actual experience than just story it is telling. Which makes it sound super pretentious, and maybe it is, but that's how I feel about it. I also feel like that is what will make or break this book for people. Either your going to be able to get into the more unconventional presentation or you are just going to bounce right off it. Personally I really enjoyed trying to figure out how to navigate House of Leaves. Following all the winding parts of the story, parsing through the different parts of this book's structure, just trying to figure what is it that is really happening, were honestly such a huge part of the appeal for me. The one thing I was a bit disappointed by was I didn't find the book as scary as I had heard some people say it was. Don't get me wrong I did get plenty unnerved reading it but I was expecting it to be a bit more intense then that.