#MMBBR #Review #FirstLine #TheHouseOfTongues by @jamesdashner via @riverdaleavenue who gifted me a free copy!!

The House of Tongues by James Dashner
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

#FirstLine - Prologue ~ I am an old man.

This book…is really something and I LOVED it. It starts off in a way that grabbed my attention immediately. The story is told to you, the reader. You feel like you are sat down and get to hear, first hand, the horrors that took place back in the day and the horrors that re-emerged many years later. I was sucked in. I could literally not put it down and when life forced me to do so I was still thinking about the story. It is so beautifully told, which may seem weird for a book in the horror genre. There is is just something about the choices of words, the descriptions, the timing of jokes, the storytelling, the dialogue, the fleshing out past and present. It was truly brilliant. This book is also scary, really scary. I could not stop thinking about it. I dreamt about it several nights. I read this book thinking about what I would have done as a teen and as a parent. Both scared me to my core!!! It is probably one of my all time favorite YA horror/thriller/mystery books. I will not soon forget this book. I want everyone to read it so I can talk to everyone about it! So if you do read it, which I HIGHLY recommend, please come back and tell me your thoughts. I need to know. I REALLY need to know!!! So don’t leave me hanging, please!

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