Keep It in the Family

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A great read and I really recommend that people should just pick up his books without reading reviews as you really don't want to spoil the fun at all in any way. Keep it in the Family is a book following married couple, Finn and Mia, who purchase a run down house with the plans to remodel it to make it their own. This book doesn't have the usual shocking twists that a lot of his other books have (though there ARE definitely lots of surprises throughout the book! Dark, twisty and pulsing with 'no let up' tension, Keep it In The Family will have you guessing until the very end - and likely checking out your own attic just to be sure.

Although I've said it once, it bears repeating: I had a hard time even believing this book was written by John Marrs. This book didn't even read like the John Marrs I am familiar with and I didn't like the style of the first-person narrative, it simply just didn't work here. I page turned and gasped in equal measures, as it twisted and turned its way to the very unexpected end! Still, I finished this, so that's something but I can't really think of anything to praise about it either.I went into this book blind, because I know if it's a John Marrs book, it's going to be awesome and I don't even need to know what it's about!

John has the knack of surprising you when you least expect it and Im so glad that this book proves yet again that he is a masterful storyteller and that I wouldn't want to ever get on his wrong side! When the baby comes, Mia becomes obsessed with the horrors that occured in her home in the past, she becomes distant with Finn, who believes she’s overreacting. If not you’re probably not really missing out on a must-read but I did enjoy this book, it just wasn’t one that left me feeling wowed to where I will be telling my fellow readers to go read it.

The story is told by the young couple and by Finn’s parents Dave and Debbie, interspersed with podcasts, interviews and news clippings. The story is based around the bodies of children found in the attic of a home that a couple has just bought to renovate. We invited everyone to join us in sharing the love or Ask the author about their book before the author joins us.

This is followed by a deeply disturbing discovery in the attic and before you know it life will never be the same. His nightmares must be something else - which is why he is able to see into our souls and bring out something to really creep us out! I can’t even hint as to why I was able to figure them out, because I’m sure other readers would too.Following a very disturbing prologue, voiced by an unknown child narrator, things kind of slowed down, with the first 30% focusing on family drama, as Mia and Finn were forced to move back in with Finn’s parents following the grisly discovery in the attic. Cara Hunter, author of the DI Adam Fawley series This is John Marrs at his very best-and that's saying something! Mia and Finn are rehabbing an old neglected home into their dream home when they find a disturbing message carved into the woodwork. An extremely powerful story of John Marrs This theme, which has implications far beyond the obvious expectations, is skillfully handled.