Thank you to Novel Suspects and Netgalley for a copy!
This book is super bingeable! With the short chapters and fast pace you won’t want to put this one down.
It will have you feeling uneasy and wondering if that creak in your attic or house is something more sinister…
There is past time lines and different sub plots that make you wonder what’s truly going on.
This is my first by this author but definitely not my last

Someone in the Attic is my favorite kind of creepy. After all, is there anything more disturbing than the feeling of being watched? Then add the fact that videos inside the family's home are showing up on Tik Tok, and Andrea Mara's new release is spooky season perfect. I enjoyed the well-placed red herrings, and I suspected almost every character at one point in time, mostly because almost everybody is hiding something. I'm definitely going to be recommending this one to all my thriller-loving friends!

I saw so many reviews saying that this book put them on edge and I just had to see for myself! I saw some reviewers saying that they were afraid to go near their own attics and terrified every time they heard a noises in their house and I was like BRING IT ON!

This book had a lot of relatable themes. The possible voyeur in the attic, mean girls, lies, and plenty of domestic drama.

Julia and Eleanor were likable characters I loved their friendship and how they dealt with everything they’d been through.

Anya was so awful it was hard to care what happened to her

Gabe. Talk about failure to launch. He drove me insane. He was a nice enough guy but the way they were DIVORCED and she still essentially took care of him financially wasn’t an attractive quality to me.

Now let’s a talk about the suspense. I was quite intrigued to know who was posting the videos and who could be holding a grudge. Every chapter was short AND seemed to leave off on a cliffhanger so the pages turned effortlessly and it was easy to keep saying JUST ONE
MORE CHAPTER!

This was a quick, fast-paced easy read and will be great for anyone that likes a little mystery and quick read!

This book definitely starts out strong! I was hooked! I really enjoyed the entire story and all the loops I went through while reading it. It definitely creeped me out when I was reading it late at night home alone with my dog barking at nothing. VERY CREEPY! I really enjoyed all the drama involved in this story too, I am a fan of some added drama!

This book gave me the creeps the entire time. It had me locking all the door and peeking into my crawl spaces. However, the ending was very anti climactic. While I loved this book I wish we got a little more in the ending

Those creaking sounds from up above will get your attention like never before after reading this new title from Andrea Mara. A family has recently relocated to Dublin and videos from inside their house are appearing on Tiktok. Each new video feels more intrusive. Could they be photoshopped from daughter Isla's own videos of their new house? Are they really part of a new on-line fascination with a reality TV show called "The Loft?" Why does son Luka swear someone is watching him sleep? Will Basil the Bunny stay safe? Mom Julia is determined to get to the bottom of it and enlists and old friend named Eleanor to help. The two do their due diligence and report the problem to the Dublin police, but things move quite slowly via official channels.

This was my first read from Andrea Mara and it was riveting. As a very linear thinker I also appreciated how neatly tied up the narrative was by the end. Thank you to Pamela Dorman Books and NetGalley for a DRC in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to PRHAudio and Pamela Dorman Books for the ALC/ARC!

“I’m not afraid of being in the dark; I’m afraid that I’m not alone”..

The beginning of this book was like something out of a nightmare - Anya hearing creaking sounds in the attic when she thought she was home alone - was enough to give me goosebumps! After the incredibly spooky opening chapter, the perspective switches to Julia, who realizes with an equal alarm that there are videos on TikTok that take place inside her own attic. It’s eerie and unsettling as she tries desperately to find out if what happened to Anya is somehow connected to her own family. I was immediately invested in the attic and whatever was going on up there! As the story progressed, some of the subplots slowed down the otherwise fast pace, but I still really enjoyed this book.

”Someone in the Attic” releases August 20, 2024. ! This review will be shared to my instagram blog (@books_by_the_bottle) shortly :)

I’m glad that I’ve never lived in a house with more than crawlspace for an attic. It’s enough picturing what might be hiding in the basement.
Julia is perplexed when her daughter shows her a video she found online. It is the inside of their new house and someone is coming out from their attic. Call me kookie, but I would’ve been gone at once if not sooner! Then of course, there would not have been this creepy story. I am not going to say much about the plot, but I was surprised at the why. I did have my suspicions about the who though. I could not figure out some of Julia’s decisions, but without them, it would not have been a book that kept me guessing. I read this at night, and it had me jumping at every strange noise (it was my cat) that I heard.

Family moves from the States to Dublin and stumbles across an online video of the interior of their new house being filmed by a figure in black that climbs out of their attic. Things progress to creepiness when the videos keep appearing but now their belongings are in the video. Solid thriller with a mystery thrown in.

Who doesn't get chills or experience a bit of paranoia when things go bump in the night. Someone in the Attic with it's just one more page, one more chapter pacing will have you hearing things while checking the vents and doors.
A family that has moved back to Dublin, Ireland after living in the States for many years, settles into a gated community not thinking they were anything but safe. When the young boy of the family starts to believe someone is living in the attic above his room, weird things begin to happen. No one believes the child. Maybe someone should.
Many story lines converge and clash to throw red herrings into what is happening and why. Sometimes a little too much but overall, I felt the need to continue turning pages way past bed time. A delicious popcorn thriller that hits on a common fear of being watched while hearing unexplained noises.

Thank you to Novel Suspects and Pamela Dorman Books for an advanced e-copy via Netgalley. All opinions are my own.

Someone In the Attic by Andrea Mara is a dark thriller that you will devour in one day! The book begins with Anya home alone and taking a bath. No spoilers here so read to discover what happens next for Anya. Be aware that the events will affect Anya's lifelong school friends and their families. There is a lot of action that keeps your heart rate elevated as you tear through the pages of this spine-tingling story. Read and enjoy!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for granting me an advance reader copy of this title in exchange for an honest review.

This story has just the right elements leading you to believe this type of online trend could really happen! Filled with characters that make you question their real motive.....this one had me guessing right up until the end!

Description
From a #1 internationally bestselling author comes an atmospheric, chilling novel about a family who thinks there's someone hiding in their attic

You thought you were home alone.

Anya is enjoying a relaxing bath when she hears a noise coming from the ceiling. Through the open bathroom door, she sees the attic hatch swing down, and a masked figure drops to the floor. Thirty seconds later, Anya is dead.

You're not afraid of being alone in the dark. You're afraid you're not alone.

Across town, Anya's old school friend, Julia, sees an online video of a masked figure climbing out of an attic. She suddenly realizes why the footage is eerily familiar: it was filmed inside her own house in a luxury gated community, designed to keep intruders out.

And now your worst fears are coming true.

Why would a stranger target Julia? Unless of course, it's not a stranger at all.

This was the perfect for a quick weekend reading binge. This book started strong. I was thoroughly creeped out knowing someone was in Anya's house... I was hoping that same vibe would continue, but the pace started to slow a little too much. I still recommend this to anyone looking for a good, eerie thriller.

3.5 stars This was my first book by this author and won’t be my last. I thought the premise was so unique and it sucked me in immediately. I loved how many different characters and aspects to the story there was. I also felt the writing was very easy to follow. I enjoyed this book. Towards the middle I did lose a little momentum but it definitely picked up at the end. I didn’t guess the ending which I pretty rare for me

This book started out super strongly. It is rare that books give me the chills, but this one truly did. However, it started to putter out midway through and the big reveal was a bit predictable. I was truly enjoying this book, so I was quite sad to be let down. This book had such great potential.
Thank you so much to Penguin Group Viking , Pamela Dorman Books, and Netgalley for allowing me to read an advance copy of this book.

Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read this in exchange for an honest review.

This was an okay thriller that started off promising but ended up falling a bit flat for me.

Many thanks to Netgalley, Novel Suspects Insiders Club, and Penguin Random House. I received this book in exchange for my honest review. My thoughts are entirely my own.

This book is definitely not one you want to read late at night with everyone else asleep. In the beginning of this novel we are following Anya who is about to dump her long time boyfriend who is planning to propose to her once he is back from his trip. Anya is taking a bath and drinking wine when suddenly she hears a noise coming from the attic and thinks nothing of it. Then she suddenly sees someone in black in the darkness and is drowned in the bathtub. Anya is supposed to meet up with Eleanor and Julia for drinks before her death and her friends are waiting for her until they find out about her death. Eleanor and Anya have both lived in Dublin their entire lives and Julia moved to San Diego until an accident involving her daughter causes their family to move back to Ireland where Julia and her ex husband are from. Julia is someone who helps companies figure out reasons to fire someone that won't result in a lawsuit basically. Anya asked Julia for advice which ended up backfiring and basically ruined Anya's reputation and the man she fired as well. Julia and Eleanor both try to wrap their minds around Anya's death and Eleanor says now theirs only two. Julia, Eleanor, and Anya where also best friends with a girl named Donna who died from falling off a roof at a party that the girls where at in their early twenties. Julia's daughter Isla finds a tiktok of the inside of their house with a hashtag that has become a craze where before hide in an attic and scare you basically. Julia messages the owner of the video and asks them to take it down. Julia believes it is a fake video that someone used from her daughter's own tiktoks that she has made since moving. Then Julia's son Luka tells Julia that a man came into his room that smells like the medicine that she puts on his pillow when he is sick. Luka becomes scare the more videos are posted. Luka's rabbit goes missing and Luka finds installation in the rabbits fur. Don't worry nothing happens to the rabbit. Julia and her ex meet the other neighbors who begin to help Julia. One neighbor is overly friendly and when Julia confronts him he appears heartbroken and Julia quickly backtracks and realizes it's not that neighbor. Then she finds out that this guy has never lived in the neighborhood and is actually the man who Anya fired and he blames the surviving friend group for what happened to him. Eleanor saves Julia who ends up in the hospital for being drugged. After being released Isla tells her mom about Riley the girl who bullied her was bragging to her friends about getting rid of her and her family and making them leave the country. Turns out Riley and her mother Heather lied and have been doing things like this for years. Eleanor and Julia are able to help Donna's family be reuniting Donna's brother and his son with their mother who haven't seen each other in twenty years. Julia and her family move out of their house to another in Ireland and the family ends up thriving after leaving their home and all is well. Tony, one of their neighbors is found dead in Sicily after his expensive coffee machine that he brought his wife caught a place on fire, which wasn't that surprising given that his wife said that she saw smoke every time she used it and Tony didn't believe her and saying it was just steam. A very interesting tale that can be easily devoured in one setting. Thank you to Novel Suspects Insiders Club for this book.

Julia, her 2 kids, and ex-husband have moved back to Ireland after leaving 20 years ago. Julia’s daughter shows her a Tik Tok video of what looks like a man coming out of their attic in their new home. Her son says someone lives in the attic at night. Assuming the kids are struggling with the move, and the video is a fake, Julia ignores them. Then her old friend Anya dies, but was it really an accident? More videos appear, and Julia has to face facts. Someone has a bone to pick with her, and they aren’t going away. Whoa, this book was intense and I ate it up like candy. For thriller fans who need something to keep them up at night, this is a great choice. Thanks to Netgalley for the free copy in exchange for an honest review.

4.25/5

Someone in the Attic is my first time reading Andrea Mara but it certainly won't be my last! This gripped me from the very first page and refused to let me go. Told mostly from Julia's viewpoint, it had so many elements that I love in my psychological thrillers, and it also creeped me the F out. I got a little irritated with Julia in the beginning but as the book went on and she finally came to see what was happening, I got less irritated with her. I was rooting her on as she tried to figure out what exactly was up with attic videos, and I loved the Dublin setting as well as the inclusion of her son's bunny. 🐰

I thought the audiobook was great and Jessica Regan excelled as the narrator. Though Julia is the main viewpoint, there are others as well and I thought Regan did a fabulous job with all of them. She was really easy to understand, and I thoroughly enjoyed my experience listening to her. Someone in the Attic includes blasts from the past along with the present-day timeline, and there were multiple layers to the story as well as the characters. The friend group was a mystery in itself and while I wouldn't say I loved all of the women, I didn't hate them either. This was a twisty read with a fast pace and it would make for a great beach read!

Someone in the attic
by Andrea Mara
Pub Date: August 20, 2024
Thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the ARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
I haven't read other books by this author so this was new to me.
This is super creepy in places as it taps into your worst fears and nightmares. There are one or two occurrences where I literally jump, and the fact that Julie young son Luca is so full of fear, seems to escalate the readers. Julia lives in a wealthy gated community, and this adds to the weirdness as a couple of neighbors raise the suspicion antenna a notch or two. The behavior of her ex-husband, Gabe is mysterious, and this helps build tension further. There are a few good red herrings along the way and multiple plot twists and turns raising the chill factor. The mostly unlikeable characters add an extra dimension to the plot too.
It was just ok for me. There were many sub plots that detracted me from what I really wanted to read about... the attic.