Przed laty, w pięknym dworku nad jeziorem, doszło do niewyobrażalnej tragedii ogarnięta psychozą poporodową młoda matka zamordowała dwójkę swoich dzieci. Obecnie posiadłość należy do małżeństwa, które kupiło ją za bezcen. Wyremontowany przez parę dom prezentuje się zjawiskowo, ale czy pod dachem, pod którym wydarzyła się tak krwawa zbrodnia, można odnaleźć szczęście? Marta, nowa właścicielka dworku, nocami słyszy głosy zmarłych dzieci – płacz niemowlęcia i śmiech kilkuletniej dziewczynki. Z czasem udaje jej się odzyskać równowagę emocjonalną, ale wtedy dzieje się coś, co rodzi kolejne problemy – do dworku wprowadza się siostra męża Marty, Izabela. Kobiety nigdy się nie dogadywały, a obecność szwagierki jest dla Marty wyjątkowo trudna. Za zamkniętymi drzwiami wybuchają kłótnie, szczęśliwe małżeństwo przechodzi pierwszy poważny kryzys, ale to dopiero początek koszmaru. Klątwa dworku uderza z niszczycielską siłą i po raz kolejny dochodzi tu do zbrodni. Kto jest katem, a kto ofiarą?

At the time of writing this review this book is only available in polish so keep that in mind. But without making this intro longer lets jumps straight into the review of this book.

I had some high hopes and expectations for this book because the casher at the bookstore I bought this book at told me that this book was very scary and creepy. But after reading this book (or rather trying to read this book I should say) I have realized that the casher have bull shit-ed me. Because this book isn’t scary and it isn’t good.

The plot in this book is just a pure family drama show and not a horror book I have expected from this book would be. The main character and her sister-in-law hate each other and this whole book is them arguing with each other or talking shit about each other to other people. 

But at the same time the plot of this book is written in such a way that we as readers expect something happen (the generic horror setup) any second in this book. Which was the only reason why I got 200 pages into this book before DNF-ing it as I realized nothing scary would happen in this book beside the sister-in-law and the main character being very annoying and acting like little toddlers with their tantrums.

The characters in this book as you my expected from what I have said above are very very annoying for me personally. Because as I’ve said above the main character and her sister-in-law are constantly acting like little toddlers throwing tantrums all the time in this book. Both of those characters have really really annoyed and irritated me personally to such an extent that they have won my reward for being the most irritating and most frustrating characters in any book I have read so far in my life.

When it comes to the other characters in this book I gotta admit that they were just as annoying as the main character and the sister-in-law in this book. The husband of the main character in this book is way too forgiving to his sister which really really made me pissed off at him. Like his sister would get very often blackout drunk and all he would say about it was something like “oh well, she was just trying to relax”. During this book something very serious happens with the sister-in-law where a guy she was partying with tried to rape her and she intentionally pushed him down the stairs and he died. And instead of calling the police and ambulance she waited for her brother (aka the husband) to come help her hide the body and all the brother said about it was “oh well, it was his fault for falling down the stairs”. The sister-in-law could do nothing wrong in the husband’s eyes because she was his little sister no matter how many fuck-ups she did. Which really made me want to throw this book into an active fireplace. 

The writing style in this book isn’t any better than the plot and the characters in this book because its just as bad. It was so bad that I don’t even have words to describe the writing style and how bad it is. It almost feels like it was written by a mix of ChatGPT and a teenager who really hated her boyfriend’s sister for no good reason. 

There is also a handful of contradictions in this book. Where the other have written that the main character and her husband went to a “polish restaurant” and 2 pages later it changed to “Italian restaurant” even thou the characters were still in the same restaurant. Which really made it confusing for me because this book would a handful of times contradict itself like there author couldn’t remember what she has written 2 pages earlier.

I Give This Book 1 / 5