This was fine, but just didn't really do it for me. I loved From Below because the setting and the imagery just fully made me feel the terror and the claustrophobia of the characters. Something about this book just didn't quite give me that same feeling. I think a lot of it is because Dorran and Winterbourne just don't feel like that they belong in the time period that Clare is from. I understand that it's supposed to explain why Dorran's a little strange, but it just made him feel out of place or like all of this was some weird delusion. The fact that the house has been there for hundreds of years, but no one knows about it, or that they barely had modern technology just felt off. Then the imagery of Madeline and her maids all being crammed in vans to travel to this other estate felt completely out of tune with the picture that was painted of them all. It felt like the story was building up to a completely different plot about Winterbourne and Dorran, so when it turned out he was telling the truth and his weirdness was completely unrelated to the incident that caused Clare's crash, it was almost a let down. I will still give the second book a change, but this was a little bit of letdown after how good From Below was.