Rosemary’s Baby meets Salem’s Lot in this urban horror set in an exclusive New York City residential building. After the insanely traumatizing birth of their child, that left Ana paralyzed, Reid and Ana needed a lucky break. And they got one when they won a housing lottery and got to move into one of Manhattan’s most revered buildings, The Deptford. But there’s a price to pay for all “good” things…

I was very intrigued by the creepy cover and the synopsis, but sadly, I couldn’t finish this novel, I stopped reading at 51% in. 

Firstly, from what I read, this novel is very low on horror. It is mainly about the very long, very sad inner monologues of our main characters. It definitely made me more sad than scared. I felt terrible for Ana and everything she was going through. Unexpected disability may just be a personal trigger, but being in Ana’s head during that time was rough. In general we were in both of the main characters heads too much, to the point where it got boring because nothing was happening in the story. Nothing will happen for chapters and then right when you’re ready to give up reading, the story gives you a TINY bit of something intriguing to make you think something is gonna happen soon, but still nothing happens. I would still kinda like to know what happened at the end, but not enough to read through 49% more of nothing progressing the story. I was highly excited for this, so I really wish I had liked it.

Thank you Tor Nightfire and NetGalley for this arc! All opinions are my own.

TW: death of a parent, Covid related death, racism, use of a homophobic slur, antisemitism, ableism, suicidal ideation, postpartum depression