She’s a foggy alcoholic measuring time until her next drink. They comment on the people that used to live there, what they remember, how they’ve changed.Ĭaroline, Richard’s ex-wife, has mostly checked out. No one recognizes them, of course, they’re invisible. But they’re watching.
Sandra and Alice have been in the house a long time and they recognize everyone who’s returned. Its rooms are piled with tons of crap that must be sifted through, sorted, and discarded or sold. At least one thing that has to be dealt with is the massive old house where they all used to live. When he finally dries up and dies, everyone returns to sort things out. Richard Walker has been estranged from his family for years. This thing is a genre-bender from the start. It’s a love story but it’s not a romance it’s a multiple-murder mystery where most of the victims have been dead for years it’s not light-hearted but it is life-affirming. But it’s got a lot more going for it than just some spooks. It’s a creepy ghost story, which is why I’m loosely throwing it into the horror category for the purpose of this review. Honestly, I don’t even know if I can put the right words in the right order to express this book’s awesomeness. She’s already a bestseller in YA and now I’m going to have to go read all that stuff because Rooms blew me away. Rooms is Lauren Oliver’s first entry into adult fiction.
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