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There's Someone Inside Your House
by Stephanie Perkins
This was a phenomenal book, to begin with: It's genre-savvy, modern, and respectful/soulful in the way it relates the psychology and struggles of all of the teenage characters. The author has an amazing skill for getting inside the head space and voice of a character, and bringing a moment to life. I related to, and cared about, everyone in this story.
As far as the murder mystery goes, there were a lot of red herrings. I was kept guessing constantly. I want to applaud Perkins for that too... But at the end of it all, looking back, I think /I/ was reading too much into the book, and it was actually more straight-forward than I was willing to admit. The killer is rightfully deduced halfway through the book, there is no surprise twist ending, or conspiracy of multiple killers... Maybe it's a little Column A, Column B: The book puts the reader in the same position was the speculative townsfolk, and you're /meant/ to feel chagrined for looking for something more salacious instead of acknowledging the ugly and the obvious.
I think I would have preferred if the killer's message were a little clearer? The targets, the staging of the bodies, the poltergeist-like behavior taunting the victims for months before their deaths - I don't think it was quite pulled together and explained in a satisfactory way. And I'm not content to handwave and say, "Well, what can be rationalized in the mind of psychopath can't be explained to your average Joe." I wanted a little more clarity before the end. And instead, the book just ENDS. No epilogue, no nothing, just abruptly fade to white...
Final note: I wanted more KATE! It's sad that Kate only gets one PoV chapter, when she is the only intelligent person who gets attacked: She sets alarms/traps, she pays attention to strange noises, she goes for a weapon, she tries to trap the killer in the basement, she calls 911, she doesn't assume she's being pranked by her friends... Katie is SO good at defending herself, that the killer actually stops assaulting her to ask, "Why aren't you screaming?" XD BALLER! This book would make an AMAZING Choose Your Own Adventure, like a Goosebumps type book, where the killer and survivors change depending upon which plot threads you follow. Please, Perkins, release the Katie Cut! <3
As far as the murder mystery goes, there were a lot of red herrings. I was kept guessing constantly. I want to applaud Perkins for that too... But at the end of it all, looking back, I think /I/ was reading too much into the book, and it was actually more straight-forward than I was willing to admit. The killer is rightfully deduced halfway through the book, there is no surprise twist ending, or conspiracy of multiple killers... Maybe it's a little Column A, Column B: The book puts the reader in the same position was the speculative townsfolk, and you're /meant/ to feel chagrined for looking for something more salacious instead of acknowledging the ugly and the obvious.
I think I would have preferred if the killer's message were a little clearer? The targets, the staging of the bodies, the poltergeist-like behavior taunting the victims for months before their deaths - I don't think it was quite pulled together and explained in a satisfactory way. And I'm not content to handwave and say, "Well, what can be rationalized in the mind of psychopath can't be explained to your average Joe." I wanted a little more clarity before the end. And instead, the book just ENDS. No epilogue, no nothing, just abruptly fade to white...
Final note: I wanted more KATE! It's sad that Kate only gets one PoV chapter, when she is the only intelligent person who gets attacked: She sets alarms/traps, she pays attention to strange noises, she goes for a weapon, she tries to trap the killer in the basement, she calls 911, she doesn't assume she's being pranked by her friends... Katie is SO good at defending herself, that the killer actually stops assaulting her to ask, "Why aren't you screaming?" XD BALLER! This book would make an AMAZING Choose Your Own Adventure, like a Goosebumps type book, where the killer and survivors change depending upon which plot threads you follow. Please, Perkins, release the Katie Cut! <3