The Haunting of Gillespie House
Darcy Coates
Elle can't believe her luck; she's spending a month house-sitting the beautiful Gillespie property. Hidden near the edge of the woods and an hour's drive from the nearest town, its dark rooms and rich furniture entice her to explore its secrets. There's even a graveyard hidden behind the house, filled with tombstones that bear an identical year of death. If only the scratching in the walls would be quiet… The house’s dark and deadly history quickly becomes tangled with Elle’s life. At the center of it is Jonathan Gillespie, the tyrannical cult leader and original owner of the house. As Elle soon learns -- just because he’s dead, doesn’t mean he’s gone.
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4.25 stars
Cover 4; characters 4; Plot 4; Pace 5; Intrigue 4; Logic 4; worldbuilding 4; Writing 5; Enjoyment 4
Once again, Darcy rolls in with another haunted house story and yet somehow manages to make it different from the rest. There's always some new back story and type of haunting and I haven't seen any overlap yet (and I'm on like book 10 at this point).
I loved that this one centered on an old cult that still managed to have its claws into todays world. The visions that our MC was getting from the past and her isolation during her stay made everything all the more creepy. The locked door mystery was also, so so good. When you've got an old house with hidden doors, locked rooms, room sizes that don't make sense, I am just in love!
There's a basement flashback scene in this one that was just full out creep factor. It literally gave me chills. Thinking about what the characters were going through and their daily lives. Ugh. Gross.
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