A review by justlily
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell

1.0

I can't tell you how much I was looking forward to this book! The summary sounded right up my alley and the title is very catching. However the author's writing style (perhaps just here, not in general) is so pretentious that it's unbearable and I find I can't keep going after twenty pages. It just SCREAMS "desperate try hard really wants to be hip and special!" and is damn near impossible to sift through. What could (would, even!) have been a fascinating story is utterly demolished and ground into the dirt by half-page long run on sentences that make very little sense.

Overall, I wanted to like it, but I can't. I really, really can't.