Joey R.'s Reviews > Just Like Home

3.5 stars-- After reading a good review of "Just Like Home" and noticing the creepy cover, I decided to give it a try. This is one time when perseverance paid off. Let me start by warning readers that the first 60 percent of this book is s-l-o-w. Picture reading recipe cards for several hours and that is what the first half of the book is like. However, after the unusually slow narrative in the first 60 percent of the book, “Just Like Home” begins to find its footing. The story of Vera, who returns to her family home at her dying mother’s request, begins gaining steam as the horrors that occurred inside the house when Vera was growing up are revealed. I have to admit by the end of the book I was totally invested in Vera’s character and amazed at how well the author went from no plot at all to one of the creepier, more terrifying endings to a horror novel I have read in a long time. If you can get through the longest buildup before anything happens in book history, then the fantastic last third of the novel is well worth the time. Or better yet let me help — my summary of the first 60 percent of the novel — Vera goes home to be with her dying mom and movesinto her old bedroom. Ok you can start at page 150 you’re welcome