From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet.
After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, has been kept at arm’s length due to her ongoing battle with a serious drug addiction. Michael, the youngest, lives out of state and hasn’t been back to their small Wisconsin town since their father ran out on them seven years before.
While going through their parent’s belongings, the siblings stumble upon a collection of home videos and decide to revisit those happier memories. However, the nostalgia is cut short when one of the VHS tapes reveals a night back in 1999 that none of them have any recollection of. On screen, their father appears covered in blood. What follows is a dead body and a pact between their parents to get rid of it, before the video abruptly ends.
Beth, Nicole, and Michael must now decide whether to leave the past in the past or uncover the dark secret their mother took to her grave.
Review by Twinsie Angie
Home is Where the Bodies are by Jeneva Rose
I purchased this audio book.
I was scrolling on TikTok when I saw a post about this book. The cover was amazing, but ya’ll did me dirty with this recommendation. I read the blurb, and I was sold. I mean it sounded like a book I would devour. I knew there would be some thriller/mystery aspects and they aren’t usually my favorite, but I was all in because a friend keeps telling me I need to give mystery/thrillers another shot. I was ready to love this book but that is not what happened.
When I started this book, I knew there would be world build and character building, so I settled in. However, I felt there were so many spots where it was just 10 minutes of describing things…things I really didn’t care about or need to know. I got bogged down with allllllllll the descriptions/details. I honestly felt like 10 chapters could have been cut because it was almost a filler of sorts with all the descriptions.
The beginning story line was great. I mean who killed Emma and where did Brian go plus why??? I was really wanting to get to the bottom of this especially after what mom spills in the first chapter. Again, I feel like it took forever to get to the bottom of the plot/story. I feel like there was so much stuff and nothing really happened until chapter 40 of 48. Then the story flew by and was over
I do think marketing the book as horror is completely not true. Seeing horror is what made me jump but there wasn’t anything really that was horror except a little girl is missing and presumed dead. But that isn’t really “horror.”
I did like the book at the end when everything started to shake out but it took me 2 weeks to read this book because I kept putting it down and would read something else. Would I reread? No. Might I try another book by this author as it was my first? Maybe.
eneva Rose is the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage, One of Us is Dead, The Girl I Was, You Shouldn’t Have Come Here & Home is Where the Bodies Are. Her work has been translated into more than two dozen languages and optioned for film/tv. Originally from Wisconsin, she currently lives in Chicago with her husband, Drew, and her English bulldog, Winston.
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