This book is a good read. The characters are easy to love and easy to dislike, depending on what the author wanted. The first six chapters though I waited for something to happen. Not saying something did or didn't happen, but the waiting got easier. I was slightly disappointed that the extent if what the house "does" happened fast in each scenario. In the end it's a good book. I have read better and I have read worse. It's in the middle for me. Give it a try, you might truly enjoy it.

Colquitt and Walter Kennedy have an idyllic life in their beloved house in the suburbs of Atlanta. Then a house is built next door on a previously vacant lot. Initially they are annoyed, but they become friends with the architect and find the house to perfectly fit into the neighborhood. Then mysterious and horrible things begin happening to anyone who moves into the house, and the Kennedy's begin to believe that the house is the root of the evil . . .

The horror of this story creeps up on the reader as the mundane details of rich suburban life give way to unspeakable horrors. Each set of new neighbors comes with new issues that are only compounded by the evil of the house. Throughout Walter and Colquitt seem almost above it as Colquitt states time and time again that she and Walter are an extremely strong unit who need only each other; which only serves to annoy the reader. Almost shocking is how Walter and Colquitt ultimately play right into the house's hand and on flimsy evidence too! The epilogue does almost nothing to bring closure to this at times disturbing, but ultimately dull tale.