2.5 stars

The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics is a book I have been looking forward to since I saw the cover. I LOVE creepy books and this one sounded and looked like it would be right up my alley. Unfortunately this one didn’t really grab me and when I turned the last page, I felt a little disappointed.

The characters in this book drove me crazy. I wanted the main character to do something about her situation and she just….didn’t. Lucy Acosta is the primary character and Margaret is her cousin. They live in an old Victorian mansion that has been passed down to Lucy’s family and things just haven’t been right since her mother died. After her mother’s death, Lucy’s Aunt Penelope and Cousin Margaret move into the house to help her father with the house and the requirements that come along with it.

When Penelope goes missing one day after heading out into the woods, things start to take a turn for the worse within the house and Lucy doesn’t appear able to do anything to fix or change things. She is definitely angry with her father and she doesn’t really know what to do with Margaret so things start to get worse. Ultimately something happens that turns everything upside down in the house and no…I can’t say what it is because this was one of the parts I found super interesting and somewhat unexpected.

There were some things that I didn’t really get. The link between the house and the club wasn’t fully explained and the pieces that were didn’t really make sense. Lucy’s father was so obsessed with the club and making sure that he did everything to protect the Acosta name in relevance to the house and club that he didn’t really take any action when Lucy came to him for help. I found him to be completely irrelevant to the story other than to be someone to hate. The new cook and her daughter…more characters that I had no idea what they were there for.

I loved the idea of this story but unfortunately it just didn’t click for me. I thought the ending showed some promise but there were so many missing pieces and random storylines that I found myself reading just to see what else would happen with this book. Is it creepy? Kind of. Is it dark? Definitely. Did I love this one? No. As I finished this book, I realized I had the same feelings regarding Lukavic’s other book and I’m just not sure that her books are for me…it could quite possibly be me though so if you like dark and creepy books, check it out.

Thank you to the publisher for the review copy.