We Used to Live Here- Book Review

Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake Lively—about two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the house’s previous residents unexpectedly visit.

As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they’ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they’re working in the house one day, there’s a knock on the door. A man stands there with his family, claiming to have lived there years before and asking if it would be alright if he showed his kids around. People pleaser to a fault, Eve lets them in.

As soon as the strangers enter their home, uncanny and inexplicable things start happening, including the family’s youngest child going missing and a ghostly presence materializing in the basement. Even more weird, the family can’t seem to take the hint that their visit should be over. And when Charlie suddenly vanishes, Eve slowly loses her grip on reality. Something is terribly wrong with the house and with the visiting family—or is Eve just imagining things?

If you have watched the movies Get Out and Parasite, then this book is a mixture of the two books. It was creepy, scary and…the ending was totally and completely bizarre and unexpected!

Eve and Charlie had bought their new house. While settling down, the Faust family knocks on the door. Eve was the one who opened the door and it was Thomas, Paige and their three children, Jenny, Kai and Newton. Thomas tells Eve that the house in which Eve and Charlie had settled down was actually his childhood home and asks if it was alright for Thomas to look around the house. Eve wasn’t sure but she allowed the family to enter into the house. The family didn’t leave as promised and soon, weird things start happening inside the house. Was the house really haunted or is Eve imagining things?

I simply couldn’t put this book down. There were extracts from the documents, that kind of proved that the house may have some supernatural elements that might affect the occupants inside the house. The descriptions, particularly the description of the ghostly figure in the basement and in the attic, gave me chills own the spine as I was reading the book. I was engrossed into the book and felt like watching a horror movie. Eve maybe hallucinating or maybe it was happening in real. The ending…wow I like the fact that the author allowed us to imagine what the ending was actually like. I don’t want to spoil the review much as there might be people who still haven’t read the book, what really happened to Eve Palmer was actually a mystery that the author has left for the readers to decide. That’s all I am saying.

I am hoping there might be a sequel to this book, this book was unputdownable and gave a creepy and horror vibe as I read this book. Worth five stars.