Kristin's Bookshelf

📖 We Live Here Now
✍️ Sarah Pinborough
🎙️ Helen Baxendale & Jamie Glover
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

After reading “They Say a Girl Died Here” and absolutely LOVING it, I immediately went looking for more Sarah Pinborough books and came across “We Live Here Now.”

Pinborough is an absolute queen of slow-burn tension. From the very beginning, I had a million questions and came up with a million theories of my own, only to have them shift as more of the truth was revealed.

And the ravens! 🐦‍⬛ I loved their presence throughout the book. Foreshadowing? Absolutely. Foreboding? That too. Every appearance added another little layer of unease.

I also found myself really appreciating Emily. I even managed to overlook her dalliance, despite that being something I normally HATE in a character, because I found what her husband was doing to be so much worse.

But THE HOUSE. 🏚️

Pinborough basically tells us early on what this house is capable of, but it’s so fantastical that you don’t recognize the truth staring you in the face until much later. I absolutely love a house that feels like a character of its own, and this one delivered.

This is definitely a slow-burn read, but that ending?

👩‍🍳💋 Chef’s kiss.

The tension, the reveals, the house, and those final moments made the wait completely worth it.

🎧 Narration Appreciation: Helen Baxendale and Jamie Glover were a great fit for the slow-building unease of this story. The narration helped maintain that creeping sense that something was very, very wrong, even when I couldn’t quite figure out what.