A review by ouchi_ee
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

dark mysterious tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

I really enjoyed the book starting in a slow pace, really setting the scene of Hill house and its history. I did predict the ending fairly early on but it didn’t ruin the book for me, it was just the right amount of mysterious and open to interpretation. I love how nell and Theo mirror the story of the sisters who lived in the house originally. 

I wonder if it’s all a metaphor for nells mental health? At one point I felt as though she were a patient, and hill house was an asylum, a place she went after her mother’s death broke her beyond repair.