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We Used to Live Here
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Corey Brill
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake Lively—about two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the house’s previous residents unexpectedly visit.
As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they’ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they’re working in the house one day, there’s a knock on the door. A man stands there with his family, claiming to have lived there years before and asking if it would be alright if he showed his kids around. People pleaser to a fault, Eve lets them in.
As soon as the strangers enter their home, uncanny and inexplicable things start happening, including the family’s youngest child going missing and a ghostly presence materializing in the basement. Even more weird, the family can’t seem to take the hint that their visit should be over. And when Charlie suddenly vanishes, Eve slowly loses her grip on reality. Something is terribly wrong with the house and with the visiting family—or is Eve just imagining things?
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- Paulina
- 25-08-24
An anxious read
Not as scary as I thought it would be, but inflicted a lot of yummy anxiety and the ending really captivated the dread of the situation. I enjoyed the doc bits, they were at times a bit harder to follow due to the layout being read aloud but I'd definitely buy the book to read it again. The voiceover was so gripping!
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- Rachel
- 05-09-24
Brilliant! I re-listened immediately
I loved this book. As soon as I finished I restarted it to listen through a different lens and paid more attention to all the docs inserted between chapters. I had a totally different take on the end the second time around. I have a feeling it’s not the last time I’ll read/listen to this one.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-08-24
I really enjoyed this book !
Thought it was a really good concept! Would recommend. Had some good twists and turns.
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- Catriona Walker
- 06-09-24
Chilling
Listened to this on a recommendation with no prior knowledge and thought it was brilliant. Whilst highly recommended, I strongly advise against listening a) when home alone b) at night or c) if you have a cellar. I did all 3 and had to do a pre-bed search of the house for demons. Twice. 10/10 was terrified.
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- Lucia D
- 22-08-24
Starts off interesting but loses it's way
Great narration/performance, story not as interesting as it seems at first. Thought it'd be more creepy and twisty but it's not. I very much could tell the author has 'RELIGION IS BAD' thoughts through the story lol. Very unrealistic at points and the main character Eve becomes unbearable- she's a drip and the story doesn't make me care about her at all.
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- Eva Perry
- 05-08-24
Brilliantly terrifying
The perfect mix of psychological and horror. An incredible debut. I can't wait to see what Marcus comes out with next.
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-08-24
Chilling
One of the best horror books I've listened to lately, holds you hostage from the very start until the last page.
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- Christina Broome
- 25-08-24
No real ending
The idea was great! But really it was just a lot of chaos and no real conclusion. You realize what’s going on at point. But they never really admit anywhere. Maybe it was an intentional literary ploy to make you “think and draw your own conclusions”. But it wasn’t a good enough book to be able to pull that one off successfully. Don’t get the hype. It definitely wasn’t scary. Someone somewhere wrote that the book was “the scariest book they ever read”. Pet Semetary holds that place for me and has for 21 years. No real competitor has ever emerged in that time.
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- T
- 31-07-24
Started ok
Too long and rather a silly plot in the end. The silly podcast bits were just annoying and added nothing
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- Gemesia
- 01-08-24
A Predictable String of Horror Movie Clichés
Started out well - the basic premise was compelling and the characterisation competent - but it soon decended into a predictable series of strung together horror movie scenes with no underlying cohesion.
The story aluded to intriguing folklore themes (changelings, Old House mysteries, time slippages etc.) but just didn't have the imagination to deliver. 30 minutes from the end I found myself increasingly irritated by the hollow tropes and circuitous narrative. The author's technical competence provides a thin veneer of apparently good storytelling but ultimately fails to deliver anything more than an unimaginative pastiche of horror movie clichés.
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