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Your House Will Pay
by Steph Cha
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Prepare to binge this book. It took me a little while to get the characters down and their relationships because of the alternating viewpoints, but once it did, I couldn't put it down.
Your House Will Pay opens in March of 1991 in Los Angeles only a few days after Rodney King was beaten by LAPD. While told mostly in the present, this novel will flashback to 1991 and share the memories of Shawn Matthews. In 2019, he has a stable job and home when he is forced to relive the murder of his sister, Ava. Also in 2019, Grace Park is trying to uncover the mystery of her own family. Her older sister stopped talking to her mother two years for reasons that Grace doesn't know. One event forces the Matthews and Park families to confront their shared history and deal with the consequences.
Cha was very strategic about which character's point of view certain chapters were told from. This allowed the reader to get the strongest emotional response from the events happening. I like that this novel doesn't try to provide concrete answers to these problems but rather offers an opening to discuss these topics.
This book is emotional, confrontational, and, at times, uncomfortable to read. However, Your House Will Pay is incredible and I cannot recommend it enough!
Your House Will Pay opens in March of 1991 in Los Angeles only a few days after Rodney King was beaten by LAPD. While told mostly in the present, this novel will flashback to 1991 and share the memories of Shawn Matthews. In 2019, he has a stable job and home when he is forced to relive the murder of his sister, Ava. Also in 2019, Grace Park is trying to uncover the mystery of her own family. Her older sister stopped talking to her mother two years for reasons that Grace doesn't know. One event forces the Matthews and Park families to confront their shared history and deal with the consequences.
Cha was very strategic about which character's point of view certain chapters were told from. This allowed the reader to get the strongest emotional response from the events happening. I like that this novel doesn't try to provide concrete answers to these problems but rather offers an opening to discuss these topics.
This book is emotional, confrontational, and, at times, uncomfortable to read. However, Your House Will Pay is incredible and I cannot recommend it enough!