hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about home before dark by Riley Sagar. i gave this book 4/5 stars. this book was honestly so freaking good, and this was honestly such a good book, in my mind, to get into the whole horror genre.
one thing that i didn’t really understand was all of the different ages between the characters. since, i’m not really sure how old petra was when she was killed, but then also about dean. and i personally thought he was the same age a maggie, but like i think he said something about how he was a teen at the time petra was. so, overall i was just super confused, but i also could have just heard it all wrong.
but there was also so much like vivid detail and creativity, it honestly just made this series come together so well. like i seriously could picture ever single thing that was happening in this book, and how everything was happening and what the house looked like. i honestly adored this in the writing.
but, the pace of this book was so good. i honestly completely loved how fast everything worked and how everything just went together. and also i found that both POV’s were honestly so amazing, even if i did find maggie’s a bit better at parts. it was still so intense and made everything so well.
i also feel like this book had so many vibes as all the shows we are seeing today in the media about creepy houses. like it was so amazing, and this was just so amazing in my mind, since these walls could talk (modern family joke if anyone watches.) and i honestly it was so cool that there was already this massive fan base about this house, so with trying to figure out the fact from fiction was so cool. since this all was so unraveling and so amusing, but in a good way.
and i feel like if we didn’t get the whole back and forth, it wouldn’t work at all. since, i feel like this whole thing, this whole thing would honestly be kind of bad. since, we can find out what really happened, and then how this is playing to Maggie being there.
then also Maggie wasn’t the best main character in the whole world. but, i do feel like she was kind of dramatic in this book. like she was a decent character in this book at parts, but it also got kind of crappy at some parts. but, i also found her a bit dramatic, since she didn’t really know what was happening and then over acting in the end a little bit.
with that being said, i still can see how this book does have the feel about it being the thriller of 2020. or from that i did see, everyone was talking about how this book was the thriller of the summer. and i mean, it was still so amazing, even if i did have a couple issues in this book.
and i also really like that Sager can really write books that aren’t about cheating or someone’s mom got killed or someone got kidnapped. which, is always so amazing, since it feels like they are all becoming the same over and over. but, i’m definitely going to be reading more of his books in the future.
i do wish we got like passages from the fathers book in here. since, i feel like it would be cool, since we can find whole fact from fiction. and i mean, it would have been so cool and just to read some of this book we got told so much about. and it would just be kind of fun to do that.
now it’s time for a little spoiler-
i personally don’t really understand why the parents where trying to cover up the fact that Maggie, a five year old, would go to jail for murder. but, i googled it, and i found this document that said that it is an excusable homicide since this is different because it is a young child, and so they don’t really understand that. and the author could have easily found this if they really tried.
anyway, that is all for today! happy blogmas day 27! i honestly really liked this book, and i cannot wait to read other books by this author in the future, since this was honestly such an amazing book.
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