A review by katekate_reads_
The Invited by Jennifer McMahon
4.0
Do you like creepy stories? I'm not sure I realized just how scary this book would be going into it - definitely a daylight only read for me!
Helen and Nate decide they want to make a change to their lives - leaving their condo in CT and their jobs as middle school teachers for a year to build a new home in the country in VT. They are so excited to get a great deal on the land! When the realtor tells them that locals talk about the woods being haunted, Helen and Nate just laugh it off. They aren't afraid of no ghosts!!
Well...just like at the start of any scary movie, I knew right then that scary stuff was about to go down! From the time they start working on the land - creepy things start happening. Helen starts doing more research into the woman who died on the land a hundred years ago - Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who knew things and was killed by villagers under suspicion of being a witch.
This was a great story that really sucked me in. Even reading it in the middle of the day on my lunch break in an office full of people - I still totally jumped twice when I was interrupted. If you enjoy creepy, atmospheric ghost stories - definitely give this one a shot!
Thank you so much to Netgalley and the publisher for the free advance copy in exchange for my honest review.
Helen and Nate decide they want to make a change to their lives - leaving their condo in CT and their jobs as middle school teachers for a year to build a new home in the country in VT. They are so excited to get a great deal on the land! When the realtor tells them that locals talk about the woods being haunted, Helen and Nate just laugh it off. They aren't afraid of no ghosts!!
Well...just like at the start of any scary movie, I knew right then that scary stuff was about to go down! From the time they start working on the land - creepy things start happening. Helen starts doing more research into the woman who died on the land a hundred years ago - Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who knew things and was killed by villagers under suspicion of being a witch.
This was a great story that really sucked me in. Even reading it in the middle of the day on my lunch break in an office full of people - I still totally jumped twice when I was interrupted. If you enjoy creepy, atmospheric ghost stories - definitely give this one a shot!
Thank you so much to Netgalley and the publisher for the free advance copy in exchange for my honest review.