![]() ![]() Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey, (List Price: $26. You spend a lot of time basically knowing what’s likely around the corner, but still being lured in by how twisty it gets – until you don’t know who to root for, or if you’re supposed to be rooting for anyone, or if the serial killer is the villain. Just memories and remembrances looping around and around in both a slow lead-up to the past and a constant questioning. ![]() This is the kind of book that’s hard to summarize because ultimately very little happens or a lot happens but it’s all hinted-at and spoilers. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories shes come back to the home of a serial killer. How home isn’t always something safe (that last one is something Gailey especially makes haunting amoeba strips from). 344 pages first pub 2022 ISBN/UID: 9781250174727. How families can be a confusion of unkindness and violence and complicity. Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey is a newly published horror-thriller flavored with human evil, supernatural horror, haunted houses and gothic scene-building. Sarah Gailey leaned all the way into the truism that haunted house stories are a way to talk about how horrifying domesticity can be. ![]()
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