“The House” by Christina Lauren
If Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” book and Stephanie Meyer’s “Twilight” series had a baby…..it would be this book from Christina Lauren. I was going into this thinking this thinking it was going to be a simple haunted house book and that’s all. Well, the house is different……it’s not just haunted but it’s haunted in a different way than you would think. But the book is equal parts haunted house and romance so you have a romance brewing between the main characters Gavin and Delilah. This book isn’t bad, it just wasn’t what I was expecting going in. If you think you’d be interested in a book that is equal parts horror and romance then maybe this one would be for you.
Just a note, this book was rated “young adult”, however, there are certain romantic scenes in this book that may make it “adult” instead. I would at least recommend reading this for yourself before letting your teen read this.
Synopsis: Gavin tells Delilah he’s hers—completely—but whatever lives inside that house with him disagrees.
After seven years tucked away at an East coast boarding school, Delilah Blue returns to her small Kansas hometown to find that not much has changed. Her parents are still uptight and disinterested, her bedroom is exactly the way she left it, and the outcast Gavin Timothy still looks like he’s crawled out of one of her dark, twisted drawings.
Delilah is instantly smitten.
Gavin has always lived in the strange house: an odd building isolated in a stand of trees where the town gives in to mild wilderness. The house is an irresistible lure for Delilah, but the tall fence surrounding it exists for good reason, and Gavin urges Delilah to be careful. Whatever lives with him there isn’t human, and isn’t afraid of hurting her to keep her away.