Wednesday, June 6, 2012

The House Next Door, by Anne Rivers Siddons.

Colquitt and her husband Walter live in a upper middle class subdivision outside of Atlanta, with neighbors who are all close friends, and entertain at each other’s house.

There is an empty lot beside Colquitt and Walter's house, that has finally been sold to the Harralson family, a young married couple expecting their first child. The Harralson’s hire an architect to design a house that is stunning. However, even before they move into it, the house has already reached out to destroy them. The night of their "open house" party something horrible happens and they move out, never to be heard from again.

Then move in the Sheehans, a middle age couple trying to get a new start from their tragic past. The house doesn't wait long before destroying them also. Colquitt, unfortunately, witnesses their breaking point, something she cannot talk about publicly . The Sheehans leave the house and move away. That is when Colquitt believes the house is a living thing that survives by knowing people's weakness and destroying them with it until nothing good is left in them.

The house is getting stronger, as shown by what happens to the third family that moves in. What will happen to the previously tight-knit happy community, with an “evil” house in the neighborhood?

Reviewed by a staff member, First Regional Library

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