A review by ashleysumm
Spare Room by Dreda Say Mitchell
4.0
The last person who rented the spare room never left...
When Lisa sees a rental listing for a spare room on the top floor of a beautiful home, she knows she's found the one. The perfect room. She arranges a tour with the landlord and finds him and his wife to be a very kind couple. They accept her application and Lisa is thrilled for her fresh start. She moves in and quickly finds that the couple's demeanor was a façade, and begins experiencing strange things in her room. She then finds a disturbing letter in her room, and realizes she is not the first person to rent the room (as she was told upon moving in) and she feels a strange connection to the writer of this letter. As things get increasingly worse in the room and Lisa's personal life, no one is safe to turn to or trust, and time may not be on her side...
The first chapter of this book was incredibly disturbing, graphic and could be triggering to some. It immediately had me craving more of the story and wanting know what could possibly happen next. As a lover of all things eerie, creepy and disturbing, I could not stand to put this book down! I loved how all of the characters and events in the story were tied together in ways that you wouldn't imagine from the beginning of the book. Nothing and no one is as it seems in Spare Room, and there are twists around every curve in the road.
When Lisa sees a rental listing for a spare room on the top floor of a beautiful home, she knows she's found the one. The perfect room. She arranges a tour with the landlord and finds him and his wife to be a very kind couple. They accept her application and Lisa is thrilled for her fresh start. She moves in and quickly finds that the couple's demeanor was a façade, and begins experiencing strange things in her room. She then finds a disturbing letter in her room, and realizes she is not the first person to rent the room (as she was told upon moving in) and she feels a strange connection to the writer of this letter. As things get increasingly worse in the room and Lisa's personal life, no one is safe to turn to or trust, and time may not be on her side...
The first chapter of this book was incredibly disturbing, graphic and could be triggering to some. It immediately had me craving more of the story and wanting know what could possibly happen next. As a lover of all things eerie, creepy and disturbing, I could not stand to put this book down! I loved how all of the characters and events in the story were tied together in ways that you wouldn't imagine from the beginning of the book. Nothing and no one is as it seems in Spare Room, and there are twists around every curve in the road.