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Haven

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What if revenge ripples and echoes through time?

You can't choose your family or your destiny or your legacy. But once upon a time, a woman named Ava St. James had tried to build happiness upon the remains of her broken heart. For better or worse. Decades later, the Bakers are headed for a perfect family vacation. A full month at a house by the lake; the house passed down from a mysterious aunt no one ever talks about. Love and good intentions aside, what begins like a relaxing vacation turns into a nightmare as each of the Bakers' nerves slowly but steadily begin to wear away at the edges. Is it their fraught family dynamics or is something more sinister at work?

The house has welcomed them, but will it ever let them leave?

For readers who enjoy The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno, and Devil House by John Darnielle.

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      Starred review from October 1, 2024
      Dalia follows Estate Sale (2023) with an eerie psychological thriller. The chapters alternate between five voices, four contemporary and one retrospective. Jenna (n�e Doyle) and Jeff Baker and their children, Jessie and JJ, are taking a free, month-long vacation at a lake house. The house is available through a Doyle family timeshare, inherited from an eccentric but rarely mentioned Aunt Gussie. Each of the Bakers is dissatisfied with their current situation but unsure how to make life better. Jeff's well-paying, middle-management job has little chance for advancement, but he seems content with Jenna and his two children. While wishing her kids were less self-involved with their devices, Jenna distracts herself with domestic thrillers and yoga, but she misses being the center of Jeff's attention. Sixteen-year-old Jessie is bulimic and obsessed with becoming famous online. At fourteen, JJ is vastly overweight and thoroughly fixated on violent video games. Interspersed between the Baker's tales is Gussie's story, set down as she reminisces on the few joys and numerous trials of her life. Horror fans who enjoy beautifully detailed characters and a subtle slide into dread and darkness set in a huge, creepy house will want to take this trip.

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