5 stars for The Invited by Jennifer McMahon.
Through five generations, nine decades and then some, this is an epic tale of family, curses, gifts, secrets, love, death and survival.
Truth be told, if any horror story can be entwined with sadness, then this chilling ghost of a story is the one. A horror and horrifyingly sad story. It is a story that not only centers on the otherworldly and unexplainable that send chills down my spine, but also one that attempts to connect the dots to a sad past, to come into objects that hold tragic memories and reveal traces of people who have touched them.
Some people move into a haunted house. But this story is about building a haunted house. Indeed, it is a dangerous game to play when the lines are blurred between the past and the present, the dead and the living. But then again, this is precisely what invites readers to The Invited and makes it such a great invitation to read.
The thing is, will you dare to be invited?
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication date: 30 Apr 2019
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In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project – building the house of their dreams.
When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago.
With her passion for artifacts, Helen finds special materials to incorporate into the house – a beam from an old schoolroom, bricks from a mill, a mantel from a farmhouse – objects that draw her deeper into the story of Hattie and her descendants, three generations of Breckenridge women, each of whom died suspiciously.
As the building project progresses, the house will become a place of menace and unfinished business: a new home, now haunted, that beckons its owners and their neighbors toward unimaginable danger.
*Blurb from author's website*
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