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Narrated by:
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Cady McClain
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Jon Lindstrom
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By:
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Riley Sager
About this listen
What was it like? Living in that house.
Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into a rambling Victorian estate called Baneberry Hall. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a memoir called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon.
Now, Maggie has inherited Baneberry Hall after her father's death. She was too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father's book. But she doesn't believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don't exist.
But when she returns to Baneberry Hall to prepare it for sale, her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the pages of her father's book lurk in the shadows, and locals aren't thrilled that their small town has been made infamous. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself - a place that hints of dark deeds and unexplained happenings.
As the days pass, Maggie begins to believe that what her father wrote was more fact than fiction. That either way, someone - or something - doesn't want her here. And that she might be in danger all over again....
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©2020 Riley Sager (P)2020 Penguin Random House AudioCritic reviews
"Clever, twisty, and altogether spine-chilling.... [A] deliciously terrifying story.... You'll want to read this one after dark, ideally with the wind whistling in the eaves and a window banging somewhere just out of reach. But keep the light switch handy. You just might need it." (Ruth Ware, Book of the Month)
I didn’t see the twist coming and was quite shocked to hear the story unfold - an unexpected (and bewildering) pleasure.
Interesting twist
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Great story
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good mystery, slightly far fetched
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Narrator: Cady McClain + Jon Lindstrom
A hauntingly frightening story told through the eyes of both Maggie and her father, Maggie present day as she tries to unravel truth from fiction of a time in her life that she has little memory of and her fathers account from when she was small and Baneberry Hall entered their lives.
Some good twists here that I didn’t see coming.
Great narration
Good twists
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gripping story
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Really chilling!
Gripping and gave me nightmares for real!
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Okay ish
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another great book
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It is a book within a book haunted house story which reminded me at times of The Haunting of Hill House. I enjoyed the alternating POV between Maggie in the present, and her dad in the past. The house, Baneberry Hall, was wonderfully creepy with a tragic past, and there were plenty of things which went bump in the night. But for me the book wasn't properly scary, though it was well written, entertaining and I didn't guess the twist.
Not as scary as I'd hoped!
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plot kept you listening for more
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