I didn't read the first book in the series The Meadows before reading this one but I still really enjoyed reading this book. It had the scary atmosphere that I look for in these books and had a great mystery too.

They say never judge a book by it's cover.. but I certainly did pick this book based on the cover. It reminded me of Netflix's 'The Haunting of Hill House'. I love books which have dark covers for some reason.
I really enjoyed this book. If you like supernatural, you'll like this book, it has it all, demons, vampires, love and death! I was hooked from the start, read it within two days. I haven't actually read the first book, so I will go back and read London Clarke's first book. I'm really looking forward to the 3rd book in this series, which I believe is coming out next year.

This really isn’t my sort of thing, mostly because of the modern day vampires, but the first book in this series was good. Really good. Surprisingly good. One of the best modern day vampire stories I’ve read, quite possibly. It had a lot going on and was very well written. Obviously, book two merited checking out. So I checked it out. Even though I don’t normally go for sequels or series. In fact, this isn’t a traditional either of those, it’s a book set in the same world and location (the infamous Whickering Place mansion), but it can easily be read as a standalone. There is still the dreaded vampire cult, The Colony, and this time they set their attention on Whickering Place’s latest owner, Avery, a traumatized agoraphobic young woman, who inherits the eerie dwelling from her estranged father. The agoraphobic angle was a nice touch, she is more or less forced to stay inside a place most would leave in a second, a place where disconnected phones rings and the walls whisper of murder. But Avery isn’t alone, she soon finds herself in a hot and messy love triangle with two hunky brothers who are conveniently enough tenants at the mansion. For me, it was this aspect of the novel that kinda brought it down a peg or two. I understand the need for such a dramatic amplification and it was rendered realistically (read less cheesy than traditionally allotted) enough, but it’s such a genre cliché, it just seemed unoriginal and slightly cheap. Not in general cheap, just for the level of writing Clarke proved herself able to deliver with book one. Mind you, this book is still well written and it reads very quickly, it’s enjoyable by all accounts, it just isn’t as notably good as its predecessor. It might be the sequel thing, they seldom maintain the freshness of the original. I still think the cult angle is lots of fun if one must talk of vampires, but overall this is a much simpler and less interesting story. And having that been said, I probably wouldn’t be averse to book 3 whenever that comes out, but without caring too much either way. Just to be clear, the intent of this review isn’t to discourage the readers from this book, it’s more to caution then to reduce expectations they might have from book 1. This was still plenty entertaining, just less complex of a plot and too heavy on the romance for my tastes. Thanks Netgalley.

I was very intrigued by the cover and description of this book as I love a good haunted house story, unfortunately this book wasn't for me.

I liked the romance side of things, the love triangle etc and I loved the creepy ringing phone that kept turning up throughout the book and the little scares that made me wish the lights were on. However, I did not like how the demons had a narrative voice. I prefer to have my evil be voiceless so I have to guess at their motives. It makes it feel more scary for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher, BooksGoSocial for an electronic advanced readers copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. As always all opinions are my own.

Whickering Place is a good paranormal book with vampires and suspense. The book is well written and is has interesting characters.

Felt like a change of genre from the maverick cops, bent cops (especially senior ones), child abuse, sex trafficking, drugs "detective thrillers" and "a page-turning supernatural thriller" sounded just right. Wrong. It's essentially blood-drinking members of The Colony terrorising an agoraphobic young woman trying to live in a house left her by her estranged father. Her two sitting tenants add a possible romance - the serious young doctor and his appealingly mysterious brother, The house has ghosts some of which go back to the times when it was built as a TB Sanatorium, but they are not benevolent ghosts - they are vampires of a sort too. Lots of slicing, dicing and bleeding, exsanguinated bodies bring in the local cops and then we have the solicitor dealing with the estate who is far too interested in buying up Whickering Place. Not badly written and characters well drawn on the whole. I guess dominance of vampires is just not my thing. Thanks to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review.

I believe I should have read more about the premise of this book before beginning to read it. I was hoping for a romantic/love ghost story taking place in a beautiful historic home but that is not what this book is. If you are hoping to read the same don't bother-I gave up after about 20% of the book. If you are looking for horror/ vampires/ fantasy in a surreal setting you can read this book. I found the book to be silly and ridiculous.

Received this book as an ARC, first time I have read this author. Avery moves into her dead fathers house and strange things start happening. This book has it all vampires, demons, love, death!! Read this book in a couple of hours, it was so good. This is the second book, it was so good that I have went and bought the first one.. I can’t wait til 2020 when the next one gets here. Loved every part of this book.