If someone emailed you and offered you a house in a random town in Georgia for only $100 would you take the offer? No? Me either…

I was hoping for a gothic horror novel and I didn’t quite get that. There was no horror or scary elements to this story. We are following a family who takes a $100 offer to buy a house in a random small town in Juliana, Georgia. When they arrive Billie, the wife,  starts up a restaurant and her husband Peter, a psychologist, begins his practice. Things are going well for the family until Peter starts going insane and then leaves the family to go back to New York. The story just kind of goes off the rails after that. 

The problems I had with this story were a couple things. I’m not sure if the author should have made Billie a mother, she leaves her daughter multiple times with strangers to figure out the insanity that is the town. I think at one point she left her daughter for four days. Billie also basically leaves her restaurant as well, I’m not sure if the restaurant owner and mother were the best things for this character. I just kind of lost interest in Billie, she didn’t seem like that great of a person and I didn’t really care what happened to her.  I was hoping for more scary elements within this book, I was hoping for a haunted house story, but didn’t get that.  

I liked the short chapters and the story kept my interest, but this wasn’t a favorite and sadly one that I will probably forget.

Thank you to Kensington Publishing for an advanced copy of this ebook in exchange for an honest review.