A review by leigh_reidelberger
There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
3.0
Alright.
We'll call this 3.5- there were some slasher movie quality kills in this book.
When the beginning of the book felt like the beginning of Scream, I was pumped. The characters are fine, ordinary characters. There were some great suspenseful moments - particularly when people realized their personal items had been rearranged- because isn't that something that creeps us all out? The paranoia that your privacy has been violated but you aren't sure why? It definitely plays into a common fear.
But lemme say this-
When the killer is revealed, I was like, "okay, okay, what's the reason."
Then the killer's motive was revealed and it felt like such a letdown. I actually said out loud, "that's it?" Am I being too harsh maybe? It was just super underwhelming.
And speaking of a letdown-
Makani's constant anxiety about her history. When you learn what it is, it's also a "oh.... that's it?"
The killer's motive and Makani's secret are underdeveloped. Stephenie Perkins has a great ability to create horrific scenes and build that tension- now she just needs to bulk up the rationale to make her stories even better.
We'll call this 3.5- there were some slasher movie quality kills in this book.
When the beginning of the book felt like the beginning of Scream, I was pumped. The characters are fine, ordinary characters. There were some great suspenseful moments - particularly when people realized their personal items had been rearranged- because isn't that something that creeps us all out? The paranoia that your privacy has been violated but you aren't sure why? It definitely plays into a common fear.
But lemme say this-
When the killer is revealed, I was like, "okay, okay, what's the reason."
Then the killer's motive was revealed and it felt like such a letdown. I actually said out loud, "that's it?" Am I being too harsh maybe? It was just super underwhelming.
And speaking of a letdown-
Makani's constant anxiety about her history. When you learn what it is, it's also a "oh.... that's it?"
The killer's motive and Makani's secret are underdeveloped. Stephenie Perkins has a great ability to create horrific scenes and build that tension- now she just needs to bulk up the rationale to make her stories even better.