![]() ![]() Unfortunately the execution (pun not completely intended) leaves a lot to be desired. I know what can be done with non-linear storytelling, so I had hopes for the story. Split between a contemporary setting in the 1950s, there’s room to play around with parallels between the two sets of characters and events. It was actually the shifting between settings that caught my interest, initially. ![]() And the author does make some attempt to ground the story in its respective time-frames – making the distance between the two time-periods felt well enough, while also showing the similarities between the two. The plot utilized is an interesting premise, not a revolutionary one but certainly with the potential to make a good story. That’s certainly not the case with this book. Normally, when writing a summary or book review, I feel like I have trouble condensing the story down into a few sentences. TW: Violence, blood, body/corpse, life-altering injury, death, murder, abduction, jealous/ potentially abusive relationship, bullying, possible classismīeach House is the story of two sets of teens, and the murders/disappearances that reach across forty years, connecting their summers. ![]()
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