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Then I ended up starting Buyer Beware by Katherine Ryan Howard on audio and I got about 11% of the way into this one before I decided I also just really don't care and it's about this woman who's like moving into this house and then you get like flashback chapters of like other people who have lived in this house over the years and I was just kind of like immediately bored and not in the mood to read that one either.

But I had the exact opposite experience happen with this, which is so rare, where I'm not really enjoying the first half of it so much to the point that I considered DNF'ing this a few times. But then the ending of this book just like really surprised me and I ended up having a lot of feelings about the ending of this story.

I have read the other two books that this author has previously published. I really enjoyed Hidden Pictures.

But because I wasn't that invested in the plot or in the romance, it was just really difficult for me to push through the rest of this book because I just didn't care.

I mean, the fact that I read this entire book today just with my eyeballs, I feel like that says it all about how readable and how interesting and hooked this book had me the entire time and I think overall I'm probably going to give this like a solid four stars. And the only reason why I don't think that I can give this book a five star is because I did find the ending to be a little bit underwhelming.

Like the writing in this book is just really freaking beautiful, but it's also like very grotesque and like very over the top with like the horror.

The first thing that I started reading was The House Guest and I got about 60 pages into this one before I decided I'm so bored. This is a DNF. I don't like the writing.

Then his most recent book, the one that was called The Last One at the Wedding, I really did not enjoy that one.

So like I said, some of the writing choices were weird. I didn't like that there was such a huge cast of characters, but honestly like what kept me flipping the freaking pages was the plot. Like the plot in this book was really interesting.

The thing about this book is that the chapters are really short which I do really like and you're getting two different timelines. You're getting a present day timeline and then you also get a timeline that's taking place in 1964. So like part of this does feel a little bit historical and I think that's kind of what I'm not in the mood for right now.

And then I also ended up temporarily DNFing You Deserve to Know. I got 20% of the way through the audio book on this one too. And this one like has potential for me.