Jain
5/28/2020
I was so excited by the premise: a woman has to clean out her dead grandmother's house and discovers that 1) her grandmother was a hoarder, and 2) that's far from the most horrifying thing about her grandmother's property. And the beginning and most of the middle live up to that premise and are wonderfully creepy. The protagonist and her dog and the new friends she makes are all great--in a different book, they'd be fun characters to spend time with, and in this book, they're lovely characters to cross your fingers for and hope nothing too terrible happens to them. Also, I love the descriptions of the grandmother's house.
But the conclusion just stripped away too much of the horror for me. It's like the book started out as a horror novel and ended as a moderately dark fantasy. I'm feeling let down, even as I keep remembering bits of it that I genuinely liked.