Home is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

Dates Read: July 5, 2024 – July 7, 2024
Publication Date: April 30, 2024
Source: Owned Hardback

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It has been a couple days now and I still don’t know how I feel about this book. So this is either going to be a long rambling review or a short one. Let’s see what happens because, for once, I haven’t compiled a review based on my notes and key parts of the book that I’ve marked with sticky notes. I’m going into this review with no direction whatsoever because… I still have no idea how to feel about it.

This is a story about three, very different, siblings with very different lives and personal issues who reunite after the passing of their mother. Upon going through their parent’s belongings, they come across a tape with disturbing footage and have to decide how to move forward with what they now know.

You don’t believe in monsters until you’re living with one… and even then, you don’t believe until you’re looking in the mirror, realizing you’ve become one of them.

I DID devour it in two sittings. It was quite the page-turner. None of the characters were likable, which is something I actually do enjoy in a thriller. Typically it makes it harder to figure out the whodunnit part.

However, I had this book figured out by the halfway point. Maybe it’s because I’m a parent? Maybe it’s because I read too many thrillers? I don’t know what happened with this one but I had it figured out halfway through. I didn’t have every last detail but I had figured out enough.

There were times when the author tried to convince me it was someone else but it was never a strong enough argument in the person’s character for me to turn my attention elsewhere. I was confident I had figured it out.

I love it when a thriller book keeps me guessing. Even when I think I’ve figured it out (and HAVE figured it out) those little tidbits that make me question myself are what I enjoy most. I mean, ideally, I’d like a book that I can’t figure out. But I do appreciate one that keeps me guessing until the very end.

Speaking of the very end… The end of this book fell flat for me. It wasn’t exciting. There was no *GASP* moment. It just happened. Everything was revealed. The bad guy gives you an entire explanation for what happened (which is something I don’t prefer in books honestly) and then it just ends.

In the grand scheme of things, for me anyway, this was a forgettable thriller that I enjoyed while I read it but will likely never think about again. But I DID enjoy it to some degree so it’s getting 3 stars from me, I’ve decided.

Case closed! 😉