Sunday, March 24, 2024

Don't Let Her Stay by Nichola Sanders

 

I almost regretted buying this after all the doosies I've ordered. Let me
just mention  some books I read in the past few weeks:
1. Gallows Hill by Darcy Coates.Though she always amazes me with her novels and EVEN her anthologies (very rare for someone to make a set of very short but frightening stories), I was greatly disappointed with this one. Though not bad, it did come come on par with her previous works.
2.Orphanage by the Lake by Daniel G. Miller- though not bad I was disappointed with it. I expected a gothic, asylum like scenario only to be presented with a modern but not too chilling setting.
3.The Sister Under the Stairs by Stena Holmes- I just don't like it. It could not hold my attetion for more the 5 minutes.

Now, my review of Don't Let Her Stay:
Joanne marries an older man and gives birth to a lovely baby, named Evie. Then out of the blue, his estranged 20 year old daughter decides to live with them and creates havoc to their normally peaceful life. The daughter is extremely rude to her and strange things start to happen.Then as the story progresses the daughter claims she was rude to Joanne so that she would leave her father. She insists that she is saving Joanne and Evie from the father who has ulterior motives of killing them and puttting the blaim on the her. She mentions that he killed her mom and youngest sister and put her in a mental facility,
Just as the story was about to end the plot makes a major detour and that really caught me off guard! I thought everything was finally unravelling until the last few pages!
Don't Let Her Stay!