The Witch
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4.2 • 545 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A brand-new, haunting thriller from Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid!
Some secrets don't die―they wait.
When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family's sprawling seventeenth-century estate in rural Massachusetts. Officially, she's there to check in on her aging grandmother. Unofficially, she's hoping the old house will give her a place to disappear.
Instead, Pemberton begins to unravel her.
Every night, the grandfather clock stops at exactly 3:41 a.m. The lights flicker without warning. And a disembodied voice cries for help outside Julia's bedroom door.
As Julia digs into the house's dark history, she uncovers the story of a woman executed for witchcraft in 1692―and realizes the past may not be finished with Pemberton yet. When decades of family lies begin to surface, Julia must confront a terrifying truth: Pemberton may be haunted by women whose voices refuse to stay silent.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes The Witch, a chilling, twist-filled thriller about secrets―those we inherit, those we bury, and those people will burn to keep silent.
Customer Reviews
A good Halloween read!
Enjoyed during the Halloween season
It’s a just ghost story
This book was not haunting or thrilling and I cannot for the life of me understand how it ended up under the genre of psychological thriller. Supernatural? Not really. Witches? Nope. It was a very slow read, easy to guess what’s coming next, and it turns out it’s just a regular ghost story with a the usual commonly known history of witch hysteria tossed in so they can call it historical. Not worth the money for me.
Good Book Overall
This was a solid effort from the author. I enjoyed it and found it to be rather unique. That being said, I am not the biggest fan of the modern-day narrator. A lot of her sentences end in a murmur. It almost seems as though she moves away from the microphone.