What did I just read???
It was all over the place, but I eventually knew where it was going (even though I don't know how I got there).
I believe the author's aim was to have us believe the house was haunted but in a very obscure, realistic, sort of believable way.
This wasn't really a book I liked, so my review is a bit negative. Would love to hear from others that have read it and liked it, though. There were elements that would probably be better off left out. For example, the newspaper or online clippings. I think the story was good if left linearly and told chronologically. I didn't feel she needed to add the cliffhanging newspaper articles leaving us in suspense about who was left dead in the house. I liked the rest otherwise.
I think she should have had the missing girl, who was almost killed by her father, come back somehow, too. Would have been a great element to the story, in my opinion.
Psychological Elements
The main character is definitely suffering from an identity crisis. She takes over other people's identities, essentially after she kills them. This could be related to a dissociative identity disorder. What's weird is how it starts as a somatic symptom of physical discontinuity - she had to bite her arms because she thought they were not there or disappearing. She didn't feel whole again until she became someone else.
The house was creepy, but was it really haunted? Everyone who lived in it became insane one way or another. However, Sarah/Lizzy Slade seems to have been insane prior to living there.
I also have to question Joe/Liam's reasoning behind going along with this. Was he scared? Did he feel guilty or responsible for the death of the real Sarah Slade, so he went along with it so Lizzy wouldn't implicate him? It was just weird.
Anway - what you do think?
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