We get to meet some of the tertiary characters and it sets the mood for the rest of the read. It starts off a bit slow as she gets there, tries to get settled and realizes just what kind of task she’s actually in for. This reads as Mouse’s writing of her experiences while cleaning out the hoarding house of her late stepgrandmother. This is one of those books that I was wondering how I was going to feel within the first 50 pages. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.įrom Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more-Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.Īlone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors-because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. After all, how bad could it be?Īnswer: pretty bad. When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother’s house, she says yes. When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods. Thanks to Gallery Books for the free copies in exchange for our honest reviews More #fallintomybacklist for the #allthebookreviews duo!
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