The majority of this book is narration and description, something that sometimes doesn’t work for me. Vera feels a connection reawaken, and as she begins to prepare the house for her mother’s death … maybe it is preparing her.Ĭan we just talk for a moment about the luxurious quality of Gailey’s writing? They are a master of analogy, metaphor, and simile. As Gailey weaves flashbacks into present-day tensions, we start to learn that there is more happening in the Crowder house than meets the eye. Or at least, that’s how the story starts. The wrinkle? Vera’s father was a serial killer he killed people in that very house, and this one fact has shaped Vera’s entire life and torpedoed her relationship with her mother. Vera Crowder is returning to her childhood home to care for her dying mother. It takes a special kind of speculative-fiction author to get me to do that, and Gailey happens to be such an author. After reading Sarah Gailey’s The Echo Wife last year, I jumped on Just Like Home as soon as it came out-and thanks, by the way, to my library for having a copy available right away! For those who don’t know me, I want to be upfront: I don’t generally read horror.
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