A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

“They say you can’t go home again, but of course you can. It’s just that when you get there, somebody may have repainted and changed the fixtures around.”

Samantha “Sam” Montgomery is an archaeoentomologist who lives in Arizona. Her current project is halted, so she seizes the opportunity to visit her mother in North Carolina. When Sam arrives at the house her grandmother, Gran Mae, owned before passing twenty years ago, she finds her mother alarmingly thin and the house reverted to the way it looked when Sam’s grandmother was alive. Her mother is also acting strangely and Sam doesn’t know if she is mourning her grandmother twenty years late, starting early onset dementia, or struggling with another health issue. Sam is determined to find the logical reason for the changes. Of course, in a horror story, nothing is ever logical.

This is a Southern Gothic horror story with humor and snark throughout. Sam is our narrator and her personality is an absolute delight. I loved her nerdy insect diatribes and explorations and her inner dialogue was hilarious. While there is definitely darkness and tension, as expected in anything billed “horror,” this is also over-the-top and humorously ridiculous. For me, this was a perfect summer horror story…just the right amount of horror, humor and charm.

If you enjoy lighter horror stories, I definitely recommend giving A House with Good Bones a read!

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