This gothic, creepy tale is a different genre for Kyrie McCauley. There is a lot of comparison to Bly Manor and a focus on the house with the hype of the book, which doesn’t fit. I kept looking for the house to do something, which lead me looking for the wrong thing. The focus should be on the characters. There is a lot of development in the beginning and the real eeriness begins towards the second half. The romance was not for me. If one has a life-or-death mystery to solve stopping for romance isn’t logical (or romantic). This romance felt like an interruption to the story. Otherwise I would’ve been all into horror of a tale.

As soon as I read reviews on good reads that it's similar to The Haunting of Bly Manor, I knew I had to read it. The first chapter introduces the 2 girls Marin would look after and the bird in her room, this is how to set up a good horror atmosphere. The pranks these girls pull on Marin are a bit extreme (the pile of braided hair and the poisonous berry which they said was edible.) I would've quit right then and there. The clams with the teeth inside them, I knew things were about to get even creepier soon. As the book went on, it did start to slow down and there were creepy/eerie moments but they were few and far between. The dead birds in the cemetery, the clams with human teeth instead of a pearl, Evie's gift. Overall it was a decent slow burn but the ending was intense in the best way possible. Using Evie's gift on Charles and Alice showing her true intentions about that and using Thea to do so.

I am a sucker for a good Gothic Horror and this book DELIVERED. The horrifying elements paired with the sweet, sapphic romance was the perfect balance for a YA read. It had the old tropes that I adore but some fun new twists as well and was exactly what I wanted it to be when I first heard about it. I have been talking non-stop about this book and can't wait for it to hit shelves so I can convince people to pick it up!

This was hands down one of the best books I've read recently. Every time I thought I had something figured out I was completely wrong. I loved the voice and flow, the snippits of Alice's work at the start which you need to read, they add another level to the story overall. Wren and Thea are cute (once you get to a certain point) and Marin and Evie were adorable to watch fall in love. Wren and Thea's 'mom and dad are fighting' scene was so cute and probably one of my favorites because it was a nice respite from all the creepy supernatural stuff going on and showed how much they wanted their sister to be happy.
How McCauley handled and describes grief in this is probably the best I've seen most recently. Each person dealt with their own grief, for the Lovelace women it was for a lost husband and father, for Marin it was her mother. But no one's grief was the same and everyone was dealing with it differently.
Overall just an amazing read, it does deal with some heavy themes and is incredibly creepy, but still a very beautiful story of how love and grief go hand in hand and how love can either help heal grief, or make it worse.

Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for sending and allowing me to read this book.
Wow! I absolutely loved this, the authors writing is fantastic! 5 stars.

"And I don't know about you, but I'd rather spend my time caring for the living than fearing the dead"

Besides just providing this awesome quote, All the Dead Lie Down was an incredible read...once you get to about the 50% mark. The first half of the book really does just feel like a slight alteration of the Haunting of Bly Manor, it was hard to stay into it, but that 50% percent mark really changed my whole opinion on the book. I thought McCauley did a great job showing different ways grief impacts feelings but also bringing in a supernatural/fantasy aspect. Even the twist about 80% did actually leave me shocked. My other gripe with this book, besides the slow build up at first, is just the relationship between Marin and Evie. They are both so young but the relationship seems so quick and a little unrealistic. But barring the things I mentioned, I think this a great spoopy read with some fun aspects!

I am requesting that my Library purchase this book to add to their collections upon the release of this book.

I really really loved #AllTheDeadLieDown.
Marin Blythe has just lost all that mattered in her world. Due to a horrible train crash that claimed the life of her mother Marin is now adrift. She receives a letter that turns out to be a lifeline. The famous horror author Alice Lovelace who happened to be a childhood friend of Marin's mother has asked her to come and live with them in exchange of taking care of Alice's young daughters who recently lost their father to drowning.
After arriving at the Lovelace home and meeting Alice Lovelace and the girls Thea and Wren it doesn't take long for Marin to wonder exactly what she has gotten herself into.
Wren seems to hate her and just wants her gone, Alice practicallly haunts her own home when she isn't locked away writing and neglecting her own kids and sweet little Thea likes to take her dolls into the woods and bury them complete with a funeral in a very old cemetery. Several strange things begin to take place and Wren takes it upon herself to ask her older sister Evie to come home.
Wren is completely entranced by Evie and finds herself slowly falling for her. But something in Lovelace is rotten, dark, and dead. Marin keeps finding dead birds in her room that now and then seem to manage to suddenly not be dead anymore. Evie seems to be hiding something about herself. Marin has no place to go and no one to turn too. Will she make it out of Lovelace alive?

Many Thanks to #Netgalley for the oppertunity to read #AllTheDeadLieDown by #KyrieMcCauley

I loved this book! I would read this over and over again. I would recommend it to anyone who wants a crazy wild ride of a book.

This book was really interesting and I liked the story itself. The writing was great and I felt like it had a nice flow. The magic/mystical aspect was good, too. I liked the eeriness and horror aspects, but I didn’t care for the characters, so I couldn’t get sucked in.

Rating: 4 stars

Solid gothic horror/mystery. Loved the subtle homages to so many horror classics (Yellow Wallpaper, The Shining, Tell-Tale Heart, and countless others). The horror elements were outstanding throughout and I found the story to be gripping! Each little sprinkling of the mystery unraveling itself was so well done. Can't wait to read more from this author.

This was really absorbing.

Marin takes a job nannying two young girls, in the home of a famed horror novelist, Alice, the childhood friend of her late mother. The girls are odd in their owns ways, especially when they try to kill her…

Something is really off at this coastal estate and it is only more evident when Alice’s oldest daughter returns home from school.

Marin and the oldest daughter, Evie have an immediate pull to one another and it’s enough to distract her from the absurdity of these young girls and their antics. But, it doesn’t change the strange air around the house and the dead animals that deep turning up.

I adored this book. I loved the little girls, in spite of their strangeness. The story takes some crazy twists and turns and ultimately left me on the edge of my seat. Secrets and death lurk around every corner and Marin might not be safe… none of them are safe…

My third book from Netgalley! Rounding up from a 3.5

After a tragedy leaves Marin parentless and homeless, she receives an invitation from her mother's childhood friend, esteemed horror writer Alice Lovelace, to stay at Lovelace Manor while she sorts herself out. Except, the secrets of the manor are slowly waking up. Everything stays at Lovelace Manor, down to the bones. All the Dead Lie Down is due to come out on May 16th of this year.

I was all in on this book--I mean, creepy children, gothic manors, and a romantic subplot--what is not to love? But the last 70 pages really fell apart for me, because the reveals happened in dominoes, so quickly that it became difficult to process the first reveal without the next crashing over your head and inverting the previous one. I really wish that McCauley had given us a slightly slower build-up to the end.

This cover is absolutely stunning. Along with the title, I was immediately drawn to this book. The beginning started out beautifully written and the gothic feel was exactly what I was looking for. However, I do feel like it barely scratched the surface and could have delved much more deeper into the story. It could be that the author planned it that way because it was listed as a YA rather than Adult, but I would have loved for it to go deeper, darker and much more Gothic. The highlights for me were the beginning and the end. It was the middle that dragged a bit for me. I felt that this was pushing the queer aspect more than the story, which detracted from my enjoyment. I wanted to get to the heart of the mystery, and the plot kept focusing on the romance. In the end I did like this book, but it was middle of the road for me.

All the Dead Lie Down is the perfect combination of classic Gothic literature and contemporary YA. The story is well-paced, keeping the reader invested until the very end. McCauley's greatest achievement with this book is not just her sweeping prose, but her ability to weave the uncanny and the heartful together into one cohesive story.

In every good haunted house tale I have read, the house in and of itself is a crucial character. It is not something that is simply there as a backdrop or decoration, but something that seems living and breathing, it’s characteristics impossible to sever from the story; it is, in essence, its life force. This novel was no different. I loved how the author managed to bring Lovelace Manor to life with all of its secrets, its eeriness, and its dread. The New England costal setting was described in such fantastic detail that I felt as though I could’ve seen the house in a photograph somewhere. This element, along with so many others (the creepy cemetery, the strange children, the bizarre family rituals, etc.) really brought back the feeling of reading classic horror novels when I was a young teenager. I adored the descriptions and imagery in this book and how it managed to be both beautiful and eerie at the same time. The story really does carry with it the salt and brine of the Atlantic, the too sweet stench of death, and the mossy aroma of forests filled with secrets. Of course, it isn’t perfect, but it’s pretty damn good. For anyone looking for a fun horror tale to fill up a dreary afternoon, I recommend giving this one a shot with a cup of tea on the side.

I loved so very much of this book...except for the climax. The atmosphere was wonderful, the character development was impeccable, the plot was engaging and made the novel un-put-downable. There were a few plot holes that cropped up, but the vibes carried me through. Even the ending was pretty great. But the part leading up to the ending was, let's just say, a LOT. A lot of a lot. So many things. And it made the creepy and horrific stuff tip over into the laughable, at least for a little while. Still enjoyed the book, and will still recommend it, but it was over-the-top in both good and bad ways.

I read an eARC of All the Dead Lie Down by KyrieMcCauley. Thank you NetGalley and HarperCollins Children’s Book for this opportunity.

This book is about Marin who days after a train accident that took her mother’s death that left her trapped in a metal prison for hours, finds herself with a nanny job in Maine watching the daughter’s of her favorite author, Alice Lovelace. Of course, the woman lives in a creepy old mansion on the coast and she writes horror, so she’s already creeped out the moment she’s dropped off. Add to the fact that the children appear to hate her, one of the two starting with what seems like harmless pranks like hiding her phone and within a week ramping up to a an actual murder attempt.

The other child is concerning in her own way. Besides usually going along with whatever her sister is doing, she also is the creepier of the two children. For one thing, she goes to old cemeteries in the nearby forest and buries her dolls.

When the older daughter comes back from school where she says she basically failed out, Marin finds out that she basically trapped in this strange place when Alice threatens her to stay with them, pointing out that there is nowhere else for her to go, and since she only gets paid in a place to stay in food, not actual money, Marin in stuck with no ability to negotiate, especially since she’s so young and a bit of a push over.

Soon stranger and stranger things happen. Dead birds appearing in her room. Animals with gapping wounds staggering around the forest when they should have succumbed to their wounds, and human teeth in clams. The creepiness ramps up, and her attraction to the oldest daughter grows deeper even as her fear of the family boils over.

The story has amazing moments of horror and creepiness. This was a frustrating read for me not that it was bad, but that I liked it, but I could see how all these disparate moments, themes, and emotions could have been great if there had just been a little more time spent polishing certain moments or exploring certain ideas instead of hiding them in the need for mystery. It wasn’t that I didn’t like this book. If this sounds like your sort of book, totally pick it up, it was that I could see where all of these parts could have just been something more and it just wasn’t quite there.

This is a really good gothic horror. It gave me the chills and I couldn't put it down.Curses and Family secrets at a seaside manor is a beautiful blend of fresh and classic.

This book had all the creeping, moody, atmospheric goodness that I love in a gothic novel.

Following the sudden death of her mother, the protagonist, Marin, is invited to live and work as a nanny in the household of an estranged childhood friend of her mother's. This friend, Alice Lovelace, is an eccentric recluse, successful author, and often inattentive parent to her young daughters. Marin is placed in charge of the two youngest, Wren and Thea, who are at turns adorably precocious and darkly secretive. When their older sister Evie returns home from boarding school, Marin begins to develop feelings for her, all while suspecting that she too has secrets hiding behind her polished facade.

Marin gets increasingly unsettled as the Lovelace family's bizarre behavior continues and she grows closer to Evie.

The characters and their interactions are steeped in unprocessed grief, and the isolated seaside mansion of Lovelace House makes for an ideally melancholic backdrop.

Ultimately, though some of the twists felt a little cliché, I quite enjoyed this book. Grief is a common theme in both gothic horror and gothic romance, but this interpretation still felt fresh.

I would definitely recommend this book to young horror enthusiasts looking to try out gothic stories.

One thing about me is I love a good spooky, atmospheric book. All the Dead Lie Down was That Book. If you want to be unsettled, enthralled, and frightened, look no further than this book. I am absolutely adding this to my go-to spooky recommendations list for library patrons. If you're a fan of the unsettling, pick this book up!