Many thanks to Netgalley and the publisher/author for providing me with an ALC in exchange for my honest review.

OMG!!! This book was exactly what I wanted it to be! I loved it. I will make sure to check out other books by this author. When I requested this I was just intrigued by the concept of it and I loved how it turned out. This story had a great plot and if you have read this and enjoyed it, This was so much. It was such a great story. I would say give this one a try. I will continue to follow this author. Way to go to this author for not letting me down.

I highly enjoyed the narrator of the audiobook. Kept me listening.

this was a no from me. I didn't even get to finish it because I lost all interest. it was slow and boring and I wouldn't recommend to anyone.

This checked off the boxes of being suspenseful, scary and had some action. With that being said, it started to drag along the further into the book I got and it took some time for something to happen again that caught my attention. A haunted house story is one of my favorites, but this didn’t keep my attention consistently.
I feel this book does a good job of putting you in the ‘spooky’ atmosphere and you will enjoy it for that.

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to listen to this book. I didn't expect anything going into this story, but I was hooked from the very beginning. It also helps that I love a good gothic story. It is a story of a family that moves into a strange house after the death of one of their sons ( one of the twins). It is very gripping and gothic.

I read this book via an audio book, so my experience might be different than others. Overall the story felt all over the place. It seemed a mix between a horror and suspense but never really settling on just one. It sometimes felt like the author was trying to hit many points instead of just focusing on making one really big splash.
Are we solving a son's murder? Dealing with a gothic house? A love story? I don't know ...
Speaking of 'love stories' ... all the ... intimate scenes were just awkward. I wanted to fast froward on my audio book to make it move on.
I did finish the book, so there is a point for that... but overall it was very unimpressionable. I was bored. I never grew to care what happened to the characters probably because I didn't like them. It's possible to care about characters the reader doesn't like ... just need a little bit of work from the author.
And again, not to harp on a single point... but as other reviewers also mentioned, we were trying to jam too many cliches into a single story. The pieces separately weren't bad, but jammed all together is what made the overall story messy, boring and hard to get through. Sadly, a pass for me.

The summary sounded good and the premise of the story should have made this a home run. This characters were flat and the author spent more time telling me versus showing me. This book would have been better as a short story versus a novel. Not much happened.

Scary, weird, old house. Sad, grieving family. Familial mystery, ghosts and secret passages!
This book seems tame at first, and takes a bit to get into the weeds of the spooky stuff but when it does, it's creepy and really sucks you in.
The poor family moving into the house has no clue what kind of hell they are consenting to live in until it is too late! If you like seeing a snowball of horrific proportions building as it rolls it's way into tragedy, this story is for you!

This book let me down. I was expecting something scary or at least creepy but it didn't work out that way for me. The plot needed to move faster and have more going on.

This was kind of fun if you're able to suspend your disbelief, which you would have to do for any horror novel. There were definite weird, sexual points in the book that made no sense to the story and felt so out of place. But I liked the explanation for the happenings at Fenton House at the end even if there were some loose threads. Maybe they will be answered in the sequel? Available from Kindle Unlimited!

This book was creepy and interesting. It was hard to put it down. The narration was fantastic. I truly liked it.

3 ⭐
This was a case of, if I had read this physically it might have gotten a higher rating. As I get older I am starting to realize I get super picky of my audiobooks. I need a narrator to wow me, and grip me from the start. This narrator, however was just ok. Honestly, I considered DNF'ing this book a couple of times and waiting for the physical copy. I, honestly could not retain too much of the story because I was a little bored. Sometimes you have hits, and sometimes you have misses.

This book was a really good read. It starts on such a sad and somber note with the family trying to cope with the tragic loss of a child after a terrible accident. The writing pulls you in from that and keeps you interested with the pace and incidents that the family goes through without it getting too slow and boring. What I really enjoyed about this book is that Ben Cheetham made me wonder what was real and what was not. If a book makes me guess even after it's finished if it was a mental issue or if these things were really happening to the people involved is a great book in my opinion.

good if you enjoy slow starts and constantly waiting for something to happen. Do be warned that there is a family tragedy if you are triggered by that. However it does have some great ambiance, feels dark and eerie. If you enjoy these things defiantly give this book a try.

3.5 stars

This story was an interesting take on the gothic horror trope. It starts off with a family tragedy, which causes the MC's to move abroad and into an old house with a tragic history. The house is infamous and has a reputation of being haunted.

The plot is slower paced, with the supernatural element taking root about midway through. As unexplainable and creepy things start happening, the plot explores these events from both a scientific/rational lens and a supernatural lens. Different characters believe different explanations.

I enjoyed the story itself. It felt grounded in reality and I liked that I could believe what was happening. However, I wasn't ever "scared," more intrigued, if anything.

The unfortunate part of the audiobook was the narrator. His performance did not do the story any favors. His voice tone and delivery just weren't a good fit for this genre. I think this may have been a big reason why I never experienced fear.

I would recommend reading this book but not listening. Thank you to Netgalley for an advanced audio copy in exchange for an honest review.

Audiobook Review
Title: Don’t Look Back
Author: Ben Cheetham

Summary:
After the tragic death of their eleven-year-old son, Adam and Ella are fighting to keep their family from falling apart. Then comes an opportunity that seems too good to be true. They win a competition to live for free in a breathtakingly beautiful mansion on the Cornish Lizard Peninsula. There’s just one catch: the house is supposedly haunted.

Mystery has always swirled around Fenton House. In 1920, the house’s original owner, reclusive industrialist Walter Lewarne, hanged himself from its highest turret. In 1996, the then inhabitants, George Trehearne, his wife Sofia, and their young daughter Heloise, disappeared without a trace. Neither mystery was ever solved.

Adam is not the type to believe in ghosts. As far as he’s concerned, ghosts are simply memories. Everywhere he looks in their cramped London home he sees his dead son. Despite misgivings, the chance to start afresh is too tempting to pass up. Adam, Ella, and their surviving son, Henry, move into Fenton House. At first, the change of scenery gives them all a new lease of life. But as the house starts to reveal its secrets, they come to suspect that they may not be alone after all…

Review: Unfortunately this book fell flat for me. I thought it was a little slow paced and was expecting more of a horror/creepy element to the book. I thought the narrator did a nice job.

Thank you Netgalley and Dreamscape Media for this advance listener copy in exchange for my honest review.

Where to start.....? I was really disappointed in this book. It had a lot of potential, but it fell flat. It wasn't scary. It wasn't even creepy. It was pretty boring, actually. I kept waiting for the horror, but it never came. The twist was predictable and I just kept wanting more.

Ella and Adam move into a strange house under strange circumstances after the death of their child. This was supposed to be a haunted house/ghost story, but it read more like a drama. It did hold my interest enough to finish it, but only because I was hoping that the ending would make it worth the time, but I was wrong.

The audio wasn't good either. I didn't like the narrators voices for anyone. Two stars for this one, because I did finish it.

Such a good read! Kept my interest the entire time. A bit of a slow burn at the beginning but as soon as they get to the house it picks up and I could not stop listening! Then the author wraps it up with the best ending. I loved it.

2.5 Stars
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A tragic start to a haunted house novel that just didn’t deliver. The start had some promise with the death of one of Adam and Ella’s boys, and a contest to live in a supposed haunted house!?!? The novel dragged on and one for me and it took way to long for the family to get inside the house. And once inside… It just wasn’t scary. It kept dragging, but towards the ending it did pick up some. Just not enough to save this novel. There is a second novel where the Piper family returns, but I really have no interest in reading where the story goes from here.

Sadly, I was highly disappointed in this ‘haunted house’ novel. It just was not for me. The narrator, Ralph Lister did a good job with his narration, but it still could not save Don’t Look Back for me.

Don’t Look Back has been published since December 3, 2018. But has just been released on audio. Many thanks to the publisher for granting me a copy via NetGalley to listen to and review. I just wish it could have been favorable.

I recently listened to Don't Look Back and have struggled with how to put it. Frankly, I really didn't like it. While the beginning grasped me, shortly after the death of their son, the story lost my interest. So much so, that it took me three weeks and a great amount of will-power to finish. Had I not received a copy from NetGalley, I probably wouldn’t have.

It wasn’t really a horror story to me, and for that I was greatly let-down. I found it to be too out-there and unrealistic, and wondered why this was even the direction it went and by the end I had more questions than answers. I don't know if I missed something, or if it's because it's a series and I’m supposed to be enticed to go to the next one but I can't bring myself to go back and listen. The narration just didn't match the story and failed to pull me into the storyline. I was constantly catching myself drifting into thought rather than paying attention to the story which could have also contributed to my unanswered questions. I probably will NOT read the next book in the series. Please know it's nothing against the narrator, his work just didn't match the tone of the story for me and it ended up being detrimental to my concentration, aside from the fact that the story was just too dull and unrealistic. Thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for my ALC.

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* i am curious to see how the rest of this series will go, not going to lie! This was a pretty dark, weird book but rounded it up to a four since it made me want to read the rest of the series!