A haunting tale of love and mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie. At seventeen years old, James and Amelia can feel the rest of their lives beginning. They have got this summer and this summer alone to experience the extraordinary. But they didn't expect to find it in a house at the bottom of a lake. The house is cold and dark, but it's also their own. Caution be damned, until being carefree becomes dangerous. For the teens must decide: swim deeper into the house-all the while falling ...
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A haunting tale of love and mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie. At seventeen years old, James and Amelia can feel the rest of their lives beginning. They have got this summer and this summer alone to experience the extraordinary. But they didn't expect to find it in a house at the bottom of a lake. The house is cold and dark, but it's also their own. Caution be damned, until being carefree becomes dangerous. For the teens must decide: swim deeper into the house-all the while falling deeper in love? Whatever they do, they will never be able to turn their backs on what they discovered together. And what they learned: Just because a house is empty, doesn't mean nobody's home. ***** PRAISE FOR JOSH MALERMAN 'Brilliant, insanely compelling' DAILY MAIL 'Fast-paced, frightening' NEW YORK TIMES 'One of the best horror stories published for years' EXPRESS 'Brilliant ... Malerman has a knack for ratcheting up the tension with just a word or two' METRO 'Daring readers should find this tale of a malevolent telepathic pig to be a memorable experience' BOOKLIST
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Well this was real weird and creepy little book! I don't always read horror, but I liked Bird Box and was really intrigued when I heard about this one. Two teens on a first date to a lake come across a fully submerged, fully furnished house and can't seem to stop themselves from exploring it. Pretty quickly their romantic feelings and this compulsion to explore get tangled up and things start to get creepy. I couldn't put it down, I had to know the answers to the questions the main characters agreed not to ask, for fear of breaking the spell. Why? How? ...Who?
Sarah D
Jan 19, 2021
Kiss me in a house at the bottom of a lake?
I received an e-copy ARC of A House At The Bottom Of A Lake, authored by Josh Malerman, from NetGalley and the publisher, Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, in return for my honest review, which follows below. I thank both for this opportunity. From what I understand this will be a new printing of the novella, so there are people who have read this previously, but for me this was the first time.
I rated this novella 4 stars.
The idea that there are houses, churches, even whole towns, buried within bodies of water by human design or forces of nature always astounds me. The first time I remember being made aware of this phenomenon: the 1999 film In Dreams, starring RDJ and Annette Bening. I have seen this coupled with the horror and dark fiction mediums other times to great success as well: Dan Chaon's Await Your Reply had the ruins of a sunken town in Nebraska and Melanie Golding's Little Darlings featured a still sunken town as just two examples that were recent reads for me.
Characterizing this novella as horror may put too much expectation on it to deliver heavily on that end of the genre, setting the reader up for disappointment. I do think the author intended for this to be more than just a metaphorical tale of first love and how strange and unknown it can be; there are what I consider obviously supernatural/dark elements added, their purpose unfortunately not fully realized, at least for me. But even with what I felt were missed opportunities, and an ambiguous ending ( which can be polarizing ), reading this was a treat; I wanted to keep turning the page to find out the next wonder.
I know there are questions that will never be answered about the house at the bottom of a lake, but visiting the rooms and hallways perched invisibly on the shoulders of two adventurers, while falling in love over a magical summer, I think I can let it slide.
