| ** spoiler alert ** Overall I really enjoyed the book, I felt the pacing and the tone were spot on and the development of Kaitlyn was well done. It was a very interesting and unique literary experience. DID is a complex and still very mysterious disorder. I enjoyed learning that the author came up with the the idea of splitting day and night while coping with inversion disorder and that she has a family member who has DID. I feel like this helped to lend a certain humanity to her storyline and characters. I only wish that the "dead house" had been explored and described in more detail, I wanted to know more about the random dead girl she kept encountering, who Dee really was (because there was definitely more too it than what was said), and perhaps to learn a bit more about Carly.
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Part-psychological thriller, part-urban legend, this is an unsettling narrative made up of diary entries, interview transcripts, film footage transcripts and medical notes. Twenty-five years ago, Elmbridge High burned down. Three people were killed and one pupil, Carly Johnson, disappeared. Now a diary has been found in the ruins of the school. The diary belongs to Kaitlyn Johnson, Carly’s identical twin sister. But Carly didn’t have a twin . . .
Re-opened police records, psychiatric reports, transcripts of video footage and fragments of diary reveal a web of deceit and intrigue, violence and murder, raising a whole lot more questions than it answers. Who was Kaitlyn and why did she only appear at night? Did she really exist or was she a figment of a disturbed mind? What were the illicit rituals taking place at the school? And just what did happen at Elmbridge in the events leading up to ‘the Johnson Incident’? Chilling, creepy and utterly compelling, THE DEAD HOUSE is one of those very special books that finds all the dark places in your imagination, and haunts you long after you've finished reading. |
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