In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom.
Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house.
Inside, everything has changed. Gone is the eclectic warmth Sam expects; instead the walls are a sterile white. Now, it's very important to say grace before dinner, and her mother won't hear a word against Sam's long-dead and little-missed grandmother, who was the first to put down roots in this small southern town.
The longer Sam stays, the stranger things get. And every day, more vultures circle overhead...
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There was a vulture on the mailbox of my grandmother's house.- 1
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(@TitanBooks, 28 March 2023, e-book, 320 pages, ARC from the publisher via @NetGalley)
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I loved A House With Good Bones. I've loved other books by the author and expected this to be good. I wasn't disappointed. This is a horror but a bit different than my usual fare. By that I mean, the true horror moments don't start until a few chapters before the end. Until this point there are hints and ideas that something is off but not exactly what so when the moment happens I was stunned. Until this moment Sam knows something is off with her mother and puts this down to grief. Boy is she is for a surprise. I loved Sam. The book is narrated by her, and I get a real sense of her humour and personality. I love how effortlessly dark the book gets. This is a corker.
