The synopsis explains the majority of the story and it was interesting to see how the characters ended up ten years down the line when life didn't go as any of them had planned. When Dinah, former best friend to Michelle, has struggled at odd jobs since high school, barely making ends meet, she lands a seemingly perfect gig as house keeper to Michelle and Billy Dunne, town superstars and former best friends, living in an obscure mansion on a hill said to be haunted.
Early on, Michelle's peculiar behavior sends up red flags that all is not well, and while Dinah picks up on all the cues, her inner conflicts of jealousy and anger prevent her making good decisions on her own behalf. She spends the first half of the book wallowing in her misery, and the author over does it with how much misery she is in. It's not just that things go wrong for her, she feels cursed and that her life was stolen from her by Michelle. Yet, when the truth comes out that this was actually the case, she can't seem to make it right. And no matter how badly Michelle treated her throughout the entire storyline, all Dinah moans about is how she could have been a better friend and could have or should have tried harder, done more, acted differently, known better.
There wasn't one character in this book that was remotely likeable.
The later parts of the book are disjointed, and show the story from the different characters POV, only the author does a recap of the story every single time, as if it was a serial episode we hadn't just read about a few chapters before and need to be reminded of the what's happened so far. This happens multiple times drawing out an already drawn out story . A good editor would have stopped this.
Then there were the grammatical errors peppered throughout the book that were unnecessary because it would have been an easy fix. (i.e., 'over the years it had undergone so many reservations, it was hardly the same manor. (Reservations/Renovations??)…, leaving behind a clammy, stick taste. (Sick? Sticky?), Various different toys populated the different rooms. (This expression was used so many times), Collecting herself before she ascended to the basement, (there was no basement and you don't ascend downwards, even if there was). This went on through the whole story.
While the idea for the book was interesting, this wasn't more than a two star read.
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