This book is straight bonkerballs in the most gripping, beautifully written and fleshed out (ewww) way possible. If books with wild endings and shitty people are your thing, I don’t know that you’ll ever find a story more suited to you than Just Like Home. But sometimes you can sort of see someone who loves her daughter, but is just irreparably broken inside. She’s just so bitter and cruel and relentlessly nasty. 'Come home.' Veras mother called and Vera obeyed. Her mom comes off to me as having less positive traits, but…I’m sure they’re there. Just Like Home is a darkly gothic thriller from nationally bestselling author Sarah Gailey, perfect for fans of Netflixs The Haunting of Hill House as well as HBOs true crime masterpiece Ill Be Gone in the Dark. He spends time with her (not killing – they fish and stuff). Even Vera’s dad (who you may recall is a serial murderer) has his high points. And I love even more that they’re nuanced-awful. The place where her mother was going to die.” Vera breathed in the windows-shut smell of the place where she’d been born. “The house swallowed the sound immediately, because it was a house that knew how to stay quiet. Like, she really does know everything about everyone. It’s always the right time for a Mean Girls gifĪctually, pretty much all the things that Janice and Ian have to say about Gretchen Weiner in the ‘Katy learns about the Plastics’ scene in Mean Girls kind of applies to Crowder house.
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