A review by dawn_chen
The House on the Lake by Nuala Ellwood

1.0

Every male character in this book is glorified garbage. Lisa has no logic whatsoever, living in a house that has no water or electricity for the most part and think it's a great idea??? Her boy is the most annoying kid character ever and how much he's attached to his abusive and controlling father irks me to the core. Grace's father might suffer from PTSD, but the trauma he put Grace through disgusts me to the core. Yet at the end Grace's father is still somehow shown in a sympathetic light bc his trauma?? But trauma doesn't justify abuse and treating his daughter like shit. This is a thriller with no murder or anything exciting for it going on in the first 40% of the book and it's seriously a perfect waste of time.