And I can’t attest to which was more accurate because I’ve never been to Vermont. What was weird is that they both had very different version of local Vermont accents. To differentiate, the other narrator went for a more performative narration as though she were acting out her portion of the story, which was a first person narration as things happened.

The book within the book had to be narrated more as, well, a book so the male narrator did that. Regarding the narrators of the audio book. Anyway I really enjoyed it & I recommend it to both ghost story enthusiasts and mystery enthusiasts who aren’t keen on ghost stories. I like that the author insults their own writing by criticising the writing of the book within the book. And really it’s both - there is an entire book within the book. You will be asking yourself constantly if this is a great ghost story or a mystery. There are so many twists & I think they’re plausible. My big quibble is that I have no idea why this is called Home Before Dark - that phrase is not at all relevant to the plot. The Everygirl's 30 Books That Should Be on Your Summer Reading List. USA Today's Summer Reading Guide: 20 New Books You Won't Want to Miss.ĬrimeReads' 10 New Books Coming Out This Week.īuzzfeed's 17 New Thrillers That Will Keep Your Summer Exciting. The Star Tribune's 'Great Escapes' Summer Reads. Newsweek's 20 Most Anticipated Summer Reads.īookPage's 2020 Most Anticipated Thrillers and Mysteries. Working Mother's The 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2020. PopSugar's 17 Most Anticipated Summer Thrillers. Travel + Leisure's 20 Most Anticipated Summer 2020 Books.

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She was too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father's book. Now, Maggie has inherited Baneberry Hall after her father's death. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a memoir called House of Horrors. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into a rambling Victorian estate called Baneberry Hall.

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager