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deviant_panda 's review for:
We Used to Live Here
by Marcus Kliewer
This book had something happening at every page turn. Spooky and very visual - I’d recommend adding to your Halloween season reads.
Eve is anxiety ridden (likely autistic - IYKYK) main character you follow through a slowly crumbling reality. She and her partner, Charlie (nickname for Charlotte) move into a dilapidated old house that appears to be sitting on some sort of rift in the time space continuum. Or not…? All science fiction aside - as this book is not in that category - insane things start happening to Eve that have her questioning her existence. Her anchor is clearly her partner, Charlie, and for the first half of the book she’s always ‘out’ somewhere - infuriatingly so - the author gives you this drive to ‘go find Charlie’ - she’s the comfort, the reality check, she’s what Eve needs - until even Charlie is lost to the reality splicing, or hallucinations…or schizophrenic delusions depending on how you prefer to see it. And then /youre/ also left floating in this sea of untethered in cognitive disturbances right along with Eve and it just keeps going deeper from there.
There are creepy maze like basements, paint peeling wardrobes, black and white checkered tiles, attics with inoperable lights, missing windows, moved paintings,
Shadow figures…disembodied shrieking. It’s the whole creepy vibe gift wrapped nicely for you. :)
If you are familiar with things like schizophrenia, parallel universes and the mandala effect, you might get a little more out of this read. And I mean really familiar with these subjects - not just - oh I’ve heard of them.
I gobbled this book up.
Eve is anxiety ridden (likely autistic - IYKYK) main character you follow through a slowly crumbling reality. She and her partner, Charlie (nickname for Charlotte) move into a dilapidated old house that appears to be sitting on some sort of rift in the time space continuum. Or not…? All science fiction aside - as this book is not in that category - insane things start happening to Eve that have her questioning her existence. Her anchor is clearly her partner, Charlie, and for the first half of the book she’s always ‘out’ somewhere - infuriatingly so - the author gives you this drive to ‘go find Charlie’ - she’s the comfort, the reality check, she’s what Eve needs - until even Charlie is lost to the reality splicing, or hallucinations…or schizophrenic delusions depending on how you prefer to see it. And then /youre/ also left floating in this sea of untethered in cognitive disturbances right along with Eve and it just keeps going deeper from there.
There are creepy maze like basements, paint peeling wardrobes, black and white checkered tiles, attics with inoperable lights, missing windows, moved paintings,
Shadow figures…disembodied shrieking. It’s the whole creepy vibe gift wrapped nicely for you. :)
If you are familiar with things like schizophrenia, parallel universes and the mandala effect, you might get a little more out of this read. And I mean really familiar with these subjects - not just - oh I’ve heard of them.
I gobbled this book up.