Meyer's got style and an abundance of talent. With a bit of patience and discipline in his gratuitous serving of gore for gore's sake, he could create a masterpiece. I suspect, however, that he's found both his audience and his sweet spot. That said, this is not a bad outing but, unless you're his target readership, it's unlikely you'll be back for seconds. ( )

A Psychological Thriller of Nightmarish Horror

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This was an awesome psychological horror story!

A small backstory:

Angela and Terry Shepherd are on a reality show called "Let's Switch Houses" and they switch their house with a woman who is recently a widow for a period of two months. Eventually, Terry and Angela finally get their own house back but something just doesn't feel right and the atmosphere of the house has changed.

Angela starts having nightmares/visions/hallucinations which strains her relationship with Terry, but it is when Angela finds out that the woman who had lived in her house had done some rituals is when things spiral out of control for Angela and she wants to find out what exactly happened in her house!

Who is the widowed woman? What did she do in Angela's house? Does Angela find out the answers to what happened? No spoilers here as you will just have to read the book!

Thoughts:

This was my first time reading this author and I was drawn into the story right away. When the character Angela starts having the hallucinations I could feel the frustration of how she was feeling as she tried to figure out if she was really going batty or if something really did happen in her house.

The pace is fast and the writing style just flowed along. The story kept me guessing of what was causing Angela's predicament. There were two major twists near the end of the book that really sent me reeling and I read the last few chapters within a couple of hours! I have a few more books by this author and looking forward to reading them. Giving this book five "nightmare" stars! ( )