Darcy Coates

i feel like this would've done so much better as a fun little horror movie on the syfy channel that you happen upon while flipping channels and give it a shot and end up having a good time. but as a book it was just soooo much longer than necessary. also re: vanna's backstory reveal/the explanation of what was found in her journal...i see what was trying to be done, i appreciate the tragedy of it all, but it just fell flat for me. it didn't really hold interest as a reader and wasn't something i was DYING to find out the truth about because of how little it's brought up throughout the dives.… (lisätietoja)

Margot was sent away from her parents and her home when she was a young girl, and really doesn’t remember anything about her old house. When both her parents die suddenly at the same time, she inherits not only the old house (on Gallows Hill), but the very successful wine business her ancestors have run for generations (she learns this when she returns). But the house (and things inside it) is pretty creepy and a bit of a maze; there is something very wrong here. But the staff of the business (many who live on the property) appear to love it there.

Like the other books I’ve read by this author, I thought this was very good. Very creepy. Enough that I decided early on to (mostly) not read it at night! As a horror book, I feel like that’s what it should do – scare me enough to want to only read it during the day! It did its job.… (lisätietoja)