I have become Riley Sager’s fan now, and I cannot wait to
read the other three books which also became best seller. The final girls, the
last time I lied and lock every door.
If you are a horror thriller lover like me, do give this one
a try ( read alone in the dark), I am sure you will love it too. At some point
of reading this, I felt this was somewhat close to Amityville Horror, Haunting
of the hill house and some movies which includes Netflix original type writer
by Sujoy Ghosh. Reading it at night the story literally spooked me out with its haunted description.
“Every house has a story to tell and a secret to share. Ours
is a ghost story. It is also a lie, and now that yet another person has died
within these walls, it’s finally time to tell the truth.”
Home before Dark by Riley Sager
The entire story revolves around the Victorian estate Baneberry
with dark secrets .Though it seems the house is lifeless and gloomy but the walls
got a lot of stories to share.
Families have come and lived in this house for decades and
the walls have remembers every event which took place and it never forgotten
its incidents.
Twenty Five years ago Maggie
Holt ,who was just 5 years old then , came to live in the baneberry house with
her parents Jess and Ewan. Just a few weeks of stay and one night they fled
away from the house, claiming it to be haunted. Ewan ( father) who was a nonfiction writer,
wrote a book about the House of horror, there ghastly experience and what the
little girl went through. The book became the best seller. Everything which he
wrote in the book was claimed to be true. Maggie, didn’t believe the book. She
felt the book was fiction and there was
nothing called ghost and the claims were
completely fake.
Before her father died she wanted to know the truth. The
truth that there was no ghost and everything written was just for fame or may
be something her parents are hiding from her. But unfortunately she didn’t get
the satisfying answer and there she goes herself to find the truth.
The plot has been written from 2 point of view. The story
from the book and the current story of Maggie holt facing the situation.’ The
style of writing by Riley Sager was very creative weaving the story so beautifully
matching the past and the present
situation together. What I didn’t know was coming to me was the twist. Yes. I didn’t expect the twist. It’s
different from all the horrors I have been reading all these years.
Over all, a 400 page book will not make you bore and fly you through the pages for the answer, did little Maggie actually see ghost while living in Braneberry estate?
