A review by fandomsandfiction
The Night House by Jo Nesbø

dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

What makes a good horror? I honestly have no idea. Every time I try to write a review my brain starts short-circuiting. This book was just so trippy!!!! The temporal disorientation and the unreliable narrator and all things weird and bizarre and incomprehensible had my mind turning itself into knots. It's been a while since I read a good horror (or even a bad horror), so this was a thrilling shock to the system! It reminded me of the Goosebumps books I devoured as a kid. I would not recommend this book to kids though. It's what Freud would call... the uncanny. And it made for the perfect late night spooky season thriller! 

If you're a fan of Stranger Things, Goosebumps, and books that go bump in the night, this may just be the book for you. 

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