Date Of Review: July 7, 2025
Review Left On GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5947094735
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The September House

Author: Carissa Orlando
Narrator: Kimberly Farr
Started: July 4, 2025
Finished: July 7, 2025
Genre: horror, thriller
Length: 13 hours, 31 minutes, 51 seconds
Part Of A Series: no
Type Of Book: audio
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64623481-the-september-house
Storygraph Link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d8b28f2a-9fce-4e36-a3ba-e58dc845c4dd

Review:

I was so confused at the beginning of this book. I realized it skipped around a little & once I got that idea it was easier to figure out what was going on.

The author had me almost believing that Margaret was actually going crazy. I am so glad to find out that she wasn't.

The parts with Hal when he was alive triggered me a bit. Sometimes I can deal with it & sometimes I can't. Sometimes when I can't but listen anyhow, it helps me get just a tiny bit more over my past.

I can't say much more without spoiling. It is a good book and written wonderfully. I didn't think I would like this book at first & went in thinking it would be put on the DNF list. I should have known better. I did love The House On Needless Street & The Salt Grows Heavy. I should have figured I would have loved this book as well. It would be one I would buy a physical copy of - I only buy physical copies of books I love.

Goodreads Description:

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel.

When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would flee.

Margaret is not most people.

Margaret is staying. It’s her house. But after four years Hal can’t take it anymore, and he leaves abruptly. Now, he’s not returning calls, and their daughter Katherine—who knows nothing about the hauntings—arrives, intent on looking for her missing father. To make things worse, September has just begun, and with every attempt Margaret and Katherine make at finding Hal, the hauntings grow more harrowing, because there are some secrets the house needs to keep.

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