The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich
“But
when no one will believe you, you become the liar they think you are.”
The
Dead House has an interesting concept with the different presentation of
narratives and the plot being based around events from the past and told from
someone who supposedly doesn’t exist.
The
novel had a good start with the incident being revealed and the sisters being
in a mental illness hospital with the slow built up of their relationship to
themselves and their doctor. The girls are allowed to move to school for their
final year and this is where the sisters life start to differentiate. Carly is
diagnosed with DID – Dissociative Identity Disorder where after her parents
death, trauma has created an alternative version of her to protect her mind
from bad things. So Carly lives the day whilst her ‘twin sister’ Kaitlyn comes
out at night. However the sisters have
been this way before their parent’s death.
Half
way through the novel something significant happens which is pretty surprising
but after that the book goes downhill. There’s this build up of mystery but
it’s too empowering and makes the book drag on and so boring. All these events
occur and it’s just a continuous built up of mystery with no answers being
given. There is essentially little plot going on.
Worse
of all the two big reveals on who is behind it/their reasoning behind it and
what happened to her parents is so disappointing.
★☆☆☆☆
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