Without going into too much more detail, things started getting weird. The five people go to their respective houses and then things morph so that they're all together in the same house, which is now holding them prisoner. Then we find out that the same Victorian house is in five different parts of the country and it's a gateway barrier to some alternate reality. I was digging Little's writing style and even though the five characters kept having similar things happen to themselves, to the point where it was beginning to feel like he was describing the same scene five different times, I was still chugging along. What that business was, they didn't know. They needed to return to their homes and take care of some unfinished business. Most of their recollections were vague and fuzzy about their childhood homes until they all started having strange things happen to them that seemed to be all pointing in the same direction.
These five people "escaped" their childhood houses and had never returned as adults. The ending was completely "meh" and I found myself disappointed at what seemed like a really good story at the beginning.įive different people from different parts of the country grew up in a house that gave everyone the heebah jeebahs. But it became a mess and the last 100 pages were an absolute chore to get through. I selected The House and, looking back, that my have been the wrong one to introduce myself to his work. I had a few of his sitting on my shelf staring back at me to choose from. I'd heard such good things about him and decided it was time to give it a go.
So this was my first forray into a Bentley Little tale.
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