Book Review: The New House
A psychological thriller by Tess Stimson
This book for me was 4/5 stars, and I did enjoy it. At times it was hard to stay into the plot, but it wasn’t bad overall.
About The New House
The New House follows three different couples who are all attempting to buy a house.
Millie and Tom have been together forever and have two children together. Millie worries deeply about being a sociopath, but one who uses her powers for good as a heart surgeon. With their two children though, she's afraid that genetically she's passed it on.
Millie has had her eye on the Glass House for years, and when it's finally on the market she befriends the owner, a woman named Stacey who is a well known news caster. Her husband is cold and distant, and Millie worries about his treatment of Stacey.
A young American couple decides to buy Millie's house when they buy the Glass House, only for the sale of the Glass House to fall through, putting a wrench into everyone's plans.
At the end of it all, the main focus is psychopathy and trying to determine who the actual psychopath is.
Format of the book
While the book is told in chapters from different POVs, there's also a "Ted Talk" type of chapter scattered throughout the book.
I can't reveal much more without giving it away.
Takeaway
I felt like some of the book was predictable, but at the same time some of the bigger parts weren’t, which sort of made up for the predictability. I didn’t think it would end how it did, and honestly the end made me mad. Not at the author or the writer, but the characters in the story.