Something in the Walls Book Review
Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog! I’m not usually someone who reads horror books early in the year, but I saw this book I already own on Kindle Unlimited and finally decided to give it a go. So, let’s get into it!
Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce follows child psychologist, Mina Ellis as she is called onto her first case. A reporter asks for her help with the Webber family who think their daughter, Alice, has been possessed by a witch. Alice has been acting strangely. She has been pulled from school, secluded from her friends, and claims to hear voices. Mina is convinced that there is some science behind Alice’s behavior, but the more time she spends with the family and with Alice, the more she starts to believe there may actually be something supernatural going on.
For whatever reason, seeing a book I already own on KU makes me more inclined to read it because ultimately, it’s so much easier for me to read on my Kindle. But I am so glad I picked this up! This was amazing. I truly loved every second of it.
I was a little cautious because of the low GoodReads rating but now looking back I’m surprised that it is such a low rating. Then again, you can never truly trust the GoodReads reviews and rating.
The writing was truly what made this book. The descriptions and word choices added to the eeriness of the book. Just reading some paragraphs made my skin crawl because of how the scene was being described – I kind of loved it.
Here are some examples I pulled:
• “No, I mean real stories, about real witches. The kind with the black throats and tongues. The ones who creep into your house through all the cracks and crevices.”
• The rabbit corpses have been cleared away and the table wiped clean but the smell still lingers, the one Paul spoke of, the one that had haunted poor Terry to the end. Iron and pennies and marzipan.”
• “the click-ing ratcheting in Alice’s throat, faster and faster, a sound like bones knitting together.”
• “A man who knew all about the heavens and nothing about love.”
• “Because you can’t predict what fear will do to people. You don’t know which way it will send’em. Some people don’t have the stomach for it and it drives them mad.”
Witches with black throats and tongues, the smell of iron, pennies, and marzipan are you kidding me? That is creepy as hell. I admit I was not willing to read this while I was home alone. I kept thinking about how Alice said the witch is watching her from inside the walls and chimney and how Mina thought she has long white dirty fingers curl up into the fireplace – absolutely not. I was not about to dive into this without my husband home.
This was a very short read at just under 300 pages. This is definitely a one-sitting type of book. I finished this in a weekend.
Now I won’t give away too many spoilers, but I will say that I loved the ending. This turned from a supernatural thriller to a darker human-focused thriller. Pearce dives into how fear is used for control and power and what happens when not everyone buys into that.
Mina, our strong female main character is there to create doubt for the towns people. She’s there to get them to question everything. From when she first arrived, she asked questions about the hag stones, the town history, the people living in the town, neighbors, friends, family etc. She was there to make the reader question it was well.
The twist was truly well done.
I’ll end with this – out of all the horrors the worst by far is humans.
Overall, I gave this 4/5 stars. I loved it and I highly recommend it. Daisy Pearce is coming out with a new horror novel this April called, Dark is When the Devil Comes Out.
Alright folks, that is all I have for this week! Come back next week for another blog post. As always, thank you for reading :)