The Home

De: Judith Sonnet

Narrado por: Lila Kerry

THE HOME

In the early '60s, in a seemingly more "innocent" time, a group of teenagers were lured into a supposedly haunted house. The place on Sycamore Lane has a morbid history, but that's just hearsay and rumor, isn't it?

THE HOME

His name was Robbie Miller, and he was a killer. Driven mad by the THING that lived in The Home, he now exists to serve. He'll do whatever the creature that calls itself Mr. Friendlyman asks . . . He'll even become a ghost . . .

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Now, decades later and much older, they are returning to The Home. A retired fantasy writer, A doting grandfather, and a mysterious old woman who seems to know things she should not . . .

THE HOME

A dark storm is brewing over this wicked house. A storm that will break down the very fabric of reality. A storm that demands blood and sacrifice, and feeds on the ghosts of anyone who dies within it's premises.

©2024 Judith Sonnet (P)2025 Judith Sonnet

The twist at the end is amazing and spine tingling!

I love the narrator! She did amazing telling the story. There should definitely be another book like this about Mr friendly man….. awesome book

Quite the Amalgamation…

This story had me interested from the start. Heavy influences by Stephen King’s It, Tolkien, Lovecraft and a little Dungeons and Dragons sprinkled in. Nicely descriptive gore. You do catch on about half through but the ending is still worth the listen.

All Hype

I bought this book because of all of the hype about it being scary. I'm sorry to say that I wasn't scared. It started out strong, but it got to the point where the gore was gratuitous and didn't actually help further the story. Maybe there's something wrong with me but there were times the gore made me giggle because it was just silly and gross for the point of being gross. The transitions were clunky and at times hard to follow, ie did this happen in the past, is this current time for the characters... Then it kind of ended, it was drawn out and I had hoped there would be an actual build up to something but... I was looking for the "twists" and strong ending, instead it was predictable. It was like the author was trying to channel King, HP Lovecraft, and Poe. As I was listening I kept thinking, "This is quite similar to IT" and not as well done. I'm sorry as I'm sure I'm an outlier in this, I just expected more. I listened to the whole story, I wish I hadn't and instead returned it for a credit refund.

it is gorey and disturbing. q

The reader is very good but the murders were so gorey and horrible they made my stomach churn. I had to stop listening. The paranormal aspect was what made me try it. Sorry I miscalculated. For those who enjoy disturbing, sadistic, murders this might be good. The character of the murder is unique.

On the wrong shelf.

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I really did not like this book. I went into it expecting splatterpunk/extreme horror, and I honestly have no idea how it ended up being classified that way. There was nothing about it that felt particularly extreme, graphic, or even especially disturbing to me.

What bothered me even more was how heavily the story seemed to borrow from other horror writers. The influence of Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft wasn't subtle. There were concepts, terminology, phrases, and certain elements of the writing that felt so familiar that I kept thinking I had heard or read them somewhere else. At times, it felt less like inspiration and more like someone had taken pieces from other horror stories and stitched them together into something new.

I'm not going to accuse the author of plagiarism because I can't prove that, but I will say that the similarities were distracting enough that I couldn't stop noticing them.

And as far as the horror itself goes, this just wasn't it for me. If you're looking for actual splatterpunk or extreme horror, I would skip this one. I've read plenty of books that genuinely earn those labels, and this one doesn't come close in my opinion.

This was my first Judith Sonnet book, so I can't speak for her other work. Maybe this one is an exception. But based solely on this book, I won't be rushing to pick up another.

Definitely not one I would recommend.