I was a bit nervous going into this book after reading so many mixed reviews, so I am very relieved to say that this book was exactly what I hoped it would be.

There’s Someone Insider your House has all of the qualities that readers love in a Stephanie Perkins novel, plus an interesting horror/thriller vibe. It’s basically like watching your favorite cheesy teen slasher movie, but in a book form and also just better. This book is full of representation and diversity, characters who feel real enough to come to life, and of course a swoon worthy romance.

I finished this book a few days ago and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. While I do need to point out that I don’t read a lot of horror novels, I still felt severely spooked by this book. The killer in this story plays with his victims before taking them out, and after I finished this story I found myself on edge worried that similar things were happening to me. The relationships in this story, both friendly and romantic, have great chemistry. They felt really genuine and pure, I found it very easy to believe in them throughout the story.

But once I move past all of those praises, this book wasn’t really much more than an entertaining read. The only thing that truly blew me away was how effortlessly Perkins gives readers the diversity and representation that YA lit needs more of. I think this is especially important in the last few weeks with all the drama all over twitter about how authors need to stop being diverse just for the sake of being diverse, because Perkins gives us an entire cast of MC who aren’t typical without turning it into a big thing and shows how simple it can be. Turns out authors can incorporate characters just for the sake of adding diversity to their cast without over doing it, twitter trolls please read this book and take notes.

OK SORRY BACK ON TRACK NOW. But yeah other than the characters nothing about this story had any wow factor. It was exactly what I thought it would be and the fact that nothing surprised me just kind of left me wanting more. Plus the only part of the story that I had a difficult time believing was the motive behind all the murders. These two aspects left me wanting more from the story and unfortunately they are pretty important, so I can't give this book five stars despite being thoroughly entertained. This was a good book but for me it was just lacking something to make it great.