The Beach House by Ruxandra FilipMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I read this book using my Kindle Unlimited subscription and then bought it because I liked it so much. "The Beach House" is a dark and haunting tale of a young man who goes to live in a strange house with a jolly but frightening woman named Aunty. Strange occurrences start happening immediately and the protagonist is trouble by terrifying dreams and weird middle of the night visions. Eventually the dream world and the real world become indistinguishably intertwined. Ms. Filip writes about horrific situations with beautiful prose that belies the fact that English is not her first language. The characters that interact with the narrator and vividly described and are so easy to picture in your mind while reading about them. The fugue sequences are deliciously terrifying and described in such a way that it feels you are the narrator and are experiencing the events first hand. I hope Ruxandra will grace us with more stories like this because I am hooked.
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