mademeaking

This book will definitely leave you with your skin crawling! Take a happy couple, Susan and Alex, and put them in a lovely second floor brownstone apartment with their daughter Emma. Add in a somewhat suspect landlady, a doddering old handyman, a house with a secret, and a demonic bedbug invasion, and you’ve got Rosemary’s Bugs of Brooklyn. Susan, with too much time on her hands and a dissatisfied negativity, has convinced herself that her house is crawling with bedbugs, only to be refuted by an exterminator her unaffected husband shakes his head in bewilderment. There is both a psychological element here with Susan’s sanity in question, and a supernatural factor that don’t quite connect. Despite this, the creepy-crawly factor is cringe-inducing and there is enough suspense and foreboding to make this a very quick read. While the writing wasn’t anything exceptional, it was decent storytelling and the author did create great atmosphere. Susan’s paranoia is effectively laid bare as she rips her own skin to pieces and the mysterious bugs threaten her existence. I received a complimentary copy of this book via the Amazon Vine program.

2022-11-14 16:23