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A review by ljwrites85
One by One by D.W. Gillespie
4.0
Alice and her brother Dean with their parents move to a new house in the middle of nowhere. The strange house begins to effect them all. Her parents relationship, already on shaky ground seems to go from bad to worse and her warm and caring father changes overnight.
Things get worse when Alice uncovers a child’s drawing and one by one the members of the family disappear.
One by one kept me gripped from the start, I absolutely devoured this novel!
One of my favourite things is a haunted/creepy house, I always love reading the way a different author makes their mark on this horror staple.
This is the kind of novel that builds the tension from the beginning, slowly getting more and more sinister as it goes along, building into an explosive ending, which I didn’t see coming!
Dean, Alice’s older brother, reminded me so much of my son, his moodiness and the tendency to be on his phone or locked in his bedroom. I also think that the complex brother/sister relationship between Dean and Alice was portrayed really well.
The only quibble I had was with Alice’s character voice. She is meant to be ten but half the time she sounded older than I do! I think an older protagonist may have worked a little better.
One by one is solid spooky read, fully of plenty of tension and intrigue that will keep you turning those pages!
Things get worse when Alice uncovers a child’s drawing and one by one the members of the family disappear.
One by one kept me gripped from the start, I absolutely devoured this novel!
One of my favourite things is a haunted/creepy house, I always love reading the way a different author makes their mark on this horror staple.
This is the kind of novel that builds the tension from the beginning, slowly getting more and more sinister as it goes along, building into an explosive ending, which I didn’t see coming!
Dean, Alice’s older brother, reminded me so much of my son, his moodiness and the tendency to be on his phone or locked in his bedroom. I also think that the complex brother/sister relationship between Dean and Alice was portrayed really well.
The only quibble I had was with Alice’s character voice. She is meant to be ten but half the time she sounded older than I do! I think an older protagonist may have worked a little better.
One by one is solid spooky read, fully of plenty of tension and intrigue that will keep you turning those pages!