Maybe some like Mari, but she was kinda a home-wrecker and blind not to see that her boyfriend was a selfish douche. So parts of it felt disjointed.įifth, the characters were largely unlikable. There is also a lot of language.įourth, it’s possible it’s just my digital copy, but the flow was a little confusing at times with jumping back and forth, plus there are excerpts from the book Mari was writing during her timeline. Third, the ‘past’ timeline is light on music and heavy on the sex and drugs. Second, I had a good deal of it figured out, mostly because I had just watched that movie (which is completely unrelated, btw). The house is not its an active and haunting entity. The story goes: “A musician beaten to death by some lowlife, in an argument that got out of control because everyone involved was high out of their minds.”įirst, in case I’ve given you the wrong impression- this is not a paranormal book. A summer of music, sex, and drugs result in one murder and two artistic masterpieces. Past: Writer Mari, her musician boyfriend Pierce, and musician stepsister Lara, are invited by famous musician Noel Gordon to his luxurious villa in Italy. “How is it that someone can bring out the very best and the very worst of you all at once?”
Present: Emily and Chess navigate their complicated friendship as they each invest time in writing their own books, intrigued by the horrors of the past. The book goes back and forth between past and present. Her discoveries reveal hidden secrets, both old and new, and the house may claim another victim. The first line of the book is “Houses remember.”Įmily is an unhappy author, tired of writing cozy mysteries with characters based on her life that’s currently falling apart, and finally, in Croatia, is inspired to write about what happened in the house all those years ago. Decades ago a high profile murder occurred in that very house. One thing that made this book different than The Weekend Away is that the Italian (rather than Croatian) villa Emily and her friend, Chess, are staying in has a haunted past. (And a couple more things that would be spoilers) Something bad happens and the main protagonist (the responsible one) has to figure out what’s going on. My first thought while reading this book was that it was reminiscent of the Netflix movie ‘The Weekend Away’: two friends get away together in a foreign country, one is responsible and going through a rough patch in marriage, the other is an unreliable free spirit with love problems. “She hadn’t thought that perhaps houses hold on to the bad with the good, just as people do.”
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