heifers.library

model home —

mothers, sisters, siblings, absent (minded) fathers, and the promise of abuse. this book had everything.

i went into this story thinking it was going to be a clever play on the family structure as a house, and hopefully one that was haunted and dark and needing of an exorcism (curing generational trauma!?). and i left this story wishing that it was what I thought it was.

i dunno guys. I thought it was going to be scary. mostly bc I found it in the horror section and because it was supposed to be scary.

this is going to sound insane but I feel like the author was given the prompt: “write about racism as if it were fake” and the result was the mystery we (very hastily and lazily) uncover in the last few pages of the book.

I think my biggest critique is that it felt unfinished / not fully fleshed out. I struggled a bit with the main POVs thoughts bc I found our mc annoying but that’s easily forgiven with good writing, which I think that this book had! however, I found a lot of sentences and paragraphs and quotes to be repetitive and all the more interesting parts of the book to have been completely abandoned.

so i’m left disappointed and still in want of something scary to take the edge off of reality