Single mother Elodie’s life has become a fairy tale. She’s met Bren, equal parts golden-retriever devoted and sinfully handsome. He’s whisked her and her autistic son, Jude, to the crumbling family house he’s renovating. She has a new husband, a new house, and a new baby on the way. Everything is perfect.
Then Jude claims he can hear voices in the walls. He says their renovations are “hurting” the house. Even Elodie can’t ignore it–something strange is going on. The question is, is it with the house, or with her son?
Then the one secret Elodie has been hiding is revealed, and no one is safe anymore.
A pulse-pounding, clever take on the haunted house novel, You Did Nothing Wrong examines the complexities of motherhood and the twisted bonds of family as it races to its shocking ending.
This will be a short review because I don't even know how to speak about the plot without spoiling it for you. I won't even try. I will just say that when you think you have it figured out, you don't. It is a dark and twisty gut punch. At the end of the book, the author says that when you finish, you may feel wretched or haunted. So congratulations, C.G. Drews, if that was your intent, you have succeeded. You did this to me on purpose.
This is one of the most nerve-wracking, unsettling, emotionally jarring books I have ever read. I did not have a moment's peace while reading this. I frequently put it down because I needed a break, then picked it back up because I could not get it out of my mind. I still can't. I don't know what was harder on me, the anxiety of not knowing how it would end, or the devastating finish when I found out.
5 out of 5 stars
My thanks to St. Martin's Press for the e-ARC
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