Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce

TL;DR: A strong start to a disappoint twist.
Source: NetGalley, thank you so much to the publisher!

Plot: An inexperienced child psychologist faces against evil – of what kind is the problem.
Characters: These were pretty bland. What you might expect from a thriller/horror.
Setting: This started in town but headed into a small village. We didn’t get a lot of details on it.
Horror: The horror started out strong but when the twist was revealed it just stopped being scary.

Thoughts:

This one had me gripped till it lost me, which was a damn shame. Mina, a new and inexperienced child psychologist is called to investigate what could be a haunting or could be faked. She arrives in a small town and almost immediately finds the situation disturbing and confusing. This was super strong. The horror elements hit fast and hard, and I thought we were going to be in for a wild ending. Instead the story twisted and honestly? I’ve read this before and I’m honestly tired of reading it at all.

Nothing in this stood out to me besides the horror elements. Which is why I’m so incredibly disappointed. Parts of this felt very unnecessary, such as Mina’s relationship we see briefly at the beginning. He played little to no role. The twist here didn’t explain everything either. Instead it opened up more questions. Is the witch real, was it something Mina was manipulated into manifesting? The villagers are left with little to no closure as well, leaving the door open for more of this to occur. The characters, the setting, nothing held the story up except those elements and once we saw the truth? It was something done, tired, and it lost me.

I can definitely see people enjoying this but it simply wasn’t for me. I wanted something true horror, something that isn’t using tired tropes and twists that can be seen a mile away. Sadly this wasn’t it, and I continue to loose hope in this genre. I can’t say I recommend this but give it a shot if you want a strong start. But the ending? A dud.