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My Rating: 🍪🍪.5
Genre: Horror

When Noemí receives a frantic message from her newly-wed cousin Catalina, she drops everything to go help her. She arrives at the grand house, High Place, and immediately feels ill at ease around Catalina’s in-laws. As she learns about the strange rules and customs they keep and the tragic family history, she comes to believe that something is deeply wrong.

This book was extremely unsettling. I love it when the setting of a thriller/horror book starts to feel like its own character and that was definitely the case with High Place. I appreciated Noemí’s bravery and perseverance to figure out what was going on.

Although the atmosphere and setting kept me on edge, the actual narrative didn’t. It felt fairly slow to me and the same details were being harped on time and time again and the ultimate discovery felt anticlimactic.

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