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Members Starting the BR: Vicki & Trisha
Challenge:
Book: Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce


Anyone is free to join in this Buddy Read! Happy Reading!

Through Ch. 10

I'm not typically one to read a lot of horror, but this one...wow! It's so eerie and having both the audio and ebook is exacerbating the eeriness for me. The narrator is really good and when she whispers things, it literally freaks me out. I couldn't/wouldn't read this at night alone in my house! But I am loving it so far anyway! lol

(view spoiler)[At first I thought this would be more focused on Eddie and I still think it will be to a degree. Sam's journalistic skills will come to play if he's one who tends to be dramatic and sensationalizes Alice's story.

Alice - poor girl! It's so awful to feel like you're "weird" like a freak weird. Being able to speak with dead people would be a bit scary, I would think. I can't belive what the kids did to her and that she dropped that witch's bottle and broke it. I assume that's going to mean bad news!

I wonder what those sounds were that Mina heard when she couldn't sleep that night. I hope she doesn't get too freaked out and leave Alice because I think she needs help and someone who knows how to help her with her gift, if it's a gift. lol

I can't imagine being surrounded all the time by people trying to get to your Alice for help. People who truly have gifts can't always just use their gift at will but rather it just happens. It's so intrusive.

I wonder why she's so afraid to be pregnant with Oscar's child. Why her fear of his being a dad...hmm...I have to keep my eyes open for his actions.

Who the heck is the witch with an upside-down face?

Creepiest statement so far: "I see her eyes in the holes" and the narrator whispers it...so freaky! (hide spoiler)]

Through Ch. 22

(view spoiler)[Why did Alice tell Sam that he is to blame for Maggie's death by abandoning her? Then he tells her to tell Maggie he's sorry, so is he accepting culpability?

Sam thought he was going to get to see Maggie but did he release the witch woman? And that scene with Vicky and her turning black/blue...at first I thought she was a witch. Is she? The séance was so freaky! The witch wants to eat Tamsin? Really? How much of the things Alice is seeing and telling are really happening and how much might she be imagining? (hide spoiler)]

Through Ch. 35

(view spoiler)[Wow, so much happened! Three deaths: Simon, Vicky, and Mary...someone or more that one person is doing something to kill people. The Riddance Girls...ugh. It sounds like they're going to make Alice a Riddance Girl. They were tortured and left to bleed out, but it says that Lisa was one and she's alive. Hmm...All the bills put a lot of financial pressure on Lisa and Paul so maybe they are looking to make money. Not quite sure how but if anyone is, it seems like maybe Paul is likely to let things be glorified to get some money.

All those pictures that Mina found were just disgusting! So is Bert the one who's behind it all? It sounds like he has Mina locked in a room with him and probably drugged.

Poor Sam feels responsible since he couldn't handle Maggie's impending death and "abandoned" her. Honestly, I get it for some people. And Eddie saved Mina, so she has survivor's guilt but the last sentence about the pillow...did she suffocate him to "help" him die? (hide spoiler)]

Finished

(view spoiler)[This one was so good. It was a bit unbelievable for sure, but I thought it was darn good. I'm not sure why Oscar was included as a character. He didn't seem to serve any real purpose. I'm glad that nobody was a witch but there was a mastermind making everyone believe there was. Pretty disgusting what Bert did! (hide spoiler)]

I just stumbled across this group, and it's the 1st one I've joined!

I have so many questions after reading this book, which I read to the end, with enjoyment, if not complete satisfaction.
1st, Mary. Please straighten me out if I missed something. How did Mina think Bert killed Mary? When Mina went with Alice to keep an eye on things, she did check on Mary, and Mary was alive - saying Billy, Billy! Then she went to the basement, found Bert's hidey hole full of torture devices, and ran upstairs when she heard Alice screaming for her, only to find Mary dead and the music playing. Did Bert sneak back from the grocery and kill Mary? I was sure it was Alice.

Next, the goo. What was all the disgusting black goo in the fireplace? It kept oozing out. The house was in dire condition, as we learned when Mina went out the window, but wouldn't it occur to anyone that Alice's problems might be environmental? Also, wasn't it odd, that Alice's room had a fireplace at all, when her brother's room is described as "a box"?

Next - In spite of their poverty, wouldn't the 1st thing you'd do be to get both girls out of that room? Put them on the sofa downstairs? Or trade rooms with them, to see what's going on?

I know I have a lot of questions...but, was Bert allowed to dress up all those girls he photographed and publicly exorcise them? Fern said it happened to her and she was pretty glad. He had paid off cops, by his own admission, so calling them would be useless. But it had happened to Alice's mother. She was going to allow it?

The dress - what happened to Mina when she put on the dress and 12. lbs of stone necklaces, carefully, smallest to largest? She acted drugged. What was up with that?

I have more, but I'll stop with this last one - Was Alice a witch? The seance was pretty convincing. There was nothing later to explain it. How was Bert behind it? Alice seemed to have wasps doing her bidding. How did she know Mina had killed her brother? And that he called her Meens? And the postcard she sent at the end - He 4gives U! - all point to maybe she had some sort of power.

I agree with you, Vicki, that Oscar was unnecessary, unless his purpose was to make her unsure of herself. Glad she kicked him to the curb. I wonder why Sam is hanging around to see her.

Oh yes, and Good Riddance Bert!

PS I don't see where to say I have lots of spoilers.