Lock the Doors

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caleigh reading another ya thriller? everyone act like you’ve never seen this before! but unfortunately this one fell pretty flat for me. tom and his family have just moved into their “dream house.” but he notices some things are off - holes in the doors? drawing on the walls? the family who lived here before them moved just down the street. but why? and could digging into the history get tom into trouble? the writing also didn’t do it for me. it felt very juvenile, even for a ya book, and so choppy. there’s also so much repetition that just isn’t needed. it got old.

Amy is a new student at Tom’s school and turned out she is the former resident of Tom’s new house. Amy and her family have moved to the corner house of the same street. Amy is strange and Tom can’t stop thinking that she is hiding something. Is it Tom’s paranoia from his past life or there is something really strange going on? Overall, this was a good mystery/thriller about family secrets and not knowing who you should trust. I would recommend this one and hope you enjoy it if you read it! i did like how fast paced this was though. after reading vicious + vengeful, i really wanted an easy read and that’s exactly what this gave me. short chapters, simple writing, u get the idea. I see this is an old thread but while watching a repeat of the movie The Martian, we again wondered about this phrase so, finally, I Googled it. I wouldn't say the anxiety and OCD rep was necessarily bad, but to me it read more like a device designed to put doubt in reader's minds rather than good and nuanced mental illness representation.This was such an intense read, with chilling discoveries consistently made. These ensured the reader remained both engaged in the proceedings and unable to decipher the next alteration in the twisted path to the just as twisted conclusion. Even when, about half-way through the novel, the major mystery seemed to have been solved, more followed that further proved the unguessable nature of what evolved here. Honestly, I was completely suspicious with every character that I met. I didn't know who had certain secrets, but I had lots of questions about each person. Especially when it came to Amy and her creepy family. Not everything was adding up once we got to know her a little bit better. So, when she let a name slip that's when I went into detective mode. Despite the author's efforts to put doubts in reader's minds about whether Tom's own trauma was leading him to see monsters where none existed, I almost never expected anything other than the revelation of a giant secret on the part of Amy and/or her family. It was more of a question of what was being hidden, and each detail that was revealed ruined my past theories. I finally ended up with a reasonably decent idea that almost fit all of the clues - it turns out that I was partly right, but things were more messed up than even I guessed. He gets a chance to start answering his questions when he meets Amy, a new classmate of his and a member of the family that just moved in across the street. Amazingly, Amy and her family were the ones who lived in Tom's house prior to them moving in - who moves out of a place only to move into another one right across the street? Granted, it's a bigger house, but Tom can't stop himself from digging for info, and it doesn't hurt that something in Amy reminds him of himself, sad and kind of broken. However, Amy keeps telling him that she's fine and that nothing happened in the house. Could he be seeing shadows that only exist in his own mind? I liked a lot of things about this book but the pacing and atmosphere are perfection! I read this in one sitting and the twists are perfectly twisty and the villains not who you’d think. I love when an author can take an inanimate object like a house and turn it into a character that is able to evoke a certain amount of emotions from both the characters and myself!

I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This review is spoiler-free. I enjoyed Ralph's previous book, 14 Ways to Die, but this one was just so tedious and repetitive. The core story was actually decent, but it just took forever to get there. The writing seemed choppy and very juvenile. Deadlatches (Nightlatches) are found on wooden/timber doors and also glass panelled doors. Door Type Commonly Fitted To The pace was perfect and the story kept me hooked throughout the book. I didn’t see that twist coming so it was perfect. Though I felt that the history of Amy’s family could be better like there could be one or two chapters from other perspective but still I liked the format of the book and The ending was also realistic.

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This was certainly a very gripping read in which the author manages to keep up the suspense really well and keeps us readers glued to the edge of our seats. Honestly, at the start the story was feeling to me a little like the Goosebumps film where the new neighbour meets RL Stine’s ‘daughter’ and is suspicious of what she is going through, but in the book as our story moves on Tom uncovers more and more clues or rather suspicious circumstances and we soon become convinced that there is indeed something the matter, but have no idea what this could possibly be. And then we start getting some clues…. Alongside the suspense the author has also created some pretty creepy situations and frightening characters who aren’t your typical ‘villains’ but at the same time turn out to be far more frightening and dangerous. There are also the contrasts that keep standing out between Tom’s unhappy past, his present when things seem to be normalising even though this has its obstacles as well, and then again the mystery that the house is throwing up, unsettling things for him again.

Mum says most memories are Post-its on the fridge door of your life. But a few, she says, are tattoos on your soul." The book itself could have been much shorter. At times it just felt so dragged out and at times I wondered if it would ever get to the point of finding out what was going on. I think if we shorten the Amy chapters, remove a few bits and boops here, I think it would have been a much stronger book. Much more exciting. Much more WOW what is happening.

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