A review by ayoniki
House of Echoes by Barbara Erskine
4.0
I read it for the first time when I was around 14, and it just blew my adolescent impressionable mind.
I re-read it once (or twice) some time in my 20s, and I was less impressed maybe, but it still gave me chills. So much chills I slept with the light on for a couple of nights. Oh, all those "the shadows in the corner moved a little", how I love them!
And now I'm reading it again and I'm over 30, haha, and my reading background is wider, so yeah, I see the problems of this book, its repetitiveness and inconsistencies, its going way longer than it should... But still chills! Not so much maybe (no sleeping with the light on this time) but still!
So yeah, it is my guilty pleasure and it deserves 4 stars anyway :)
I re-read it once (or twice) some time in my 20s, and I was less impressed maybe, but it still gave me chills. So much chills I slept with the light on for a couple of nights. Oh, all those "the shadows in the corner moved a little", how I love them!
And now I'm reading it again and I'm over 30, haha, and my reading background is wider, so yeah, I see the problems of this book, its repetitiveness and inconsistencies, its going way longer than it should... But still chills! Not so much maybe (no sleeping with the light on this time) but still!
So yeah, it is my guilty pleasure and it deserves 4 stars anyway :)