A review by claire_fuller_writer
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Entertaining, scary, great sense of place. I listened to this and it makes a great audio book, but because I wasn't able to flick back, I know I missed some of the clues and breadcrumb trails that Kliewer leaves for the observant reader. I went and found a Reddit thread when I'd finished and that revealed an awful lot I missed. Eve and Charlie have just bought a remote doer-upper house, and one day when Charlie is out, a family knock on the door and ask if they can look around because the father - Thomas - grew up there. Reluctantly, Eve lets them in, but really they never leave, or maybe they've been there all along. Stories, people and timelines shift until everything becomes unstable. It's a story of parallel universes that genuinely made me shiver in places.