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Title: Home Before Dark
Author: Riley Sager
Narrators: Cady McClain, Jon Lindstrom
Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐. 5

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Wow. I was really taken in by so many aspects of this book, especially the plot and the narration. The two narrators did a great job of keeping the story alive and burning the fire of the thrill.
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There were so many unexpected twists and at some point I was left questioning what was real and what wasn’t. The story is told in 2 POV’s – Maggie in the present, and Ewan’s in the past via his book. I’ve got to give myself a pat on the back because I guessed on of the big reveals lol.
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Most of the characters were great, but I didn’t really like Jess’s character. Maybe it’s because most of what I saw of her was Ewan’s portrayal in his book.
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Overall, it was a good book with a gripping premise. I enjoyed it very much.

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Blurb/Synopsis:

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 Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism.

Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don’t exist. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie’s father. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself—a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of her father’s book, she starts to believe that what he wrote was more fact than fiction.

In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls?