"Rose/House" is a creepy science fiction thriller about an AI "haunting" a house after the owner has died. There's a murder, and a cop trying to solve the crime despite the AI's lack of assistance. The AI and idea of the house were deliciously disturbing. There was an unexpected twist. I enjoyed this novella and will read more from the author.

This short, gothic sci fi story was interesting and creepy.

I like the author’s use of language to set the tone. I had to look up the meaning of several different words, and they always meant precisely the right thing for the paragraph or sentence they were in.

I’ve noticed a recent tendency in books to include lines of dialogue from multiple different speakers in the same paragraph, and this book does this—I find it confusing, so it caused me to have to reread a few paragraphs for clarity.

For being a novella, I thought the characters are fairly well fleshed out. The setting was absolutely vivid and just the right amount of creepy for Halloween time. The pacing was good and the ending fairly satisfying.

I would recommend this to fans of Dare to Know by James Kennedy and maybe also Sarah Gailey.

This book had me riveted from the beginning, but I can't help but feel let down by the lack of answers at the end - I know that's kind of the point, but I'm still feeling lost without them. I know this is going to be a story that sticks with me for awhile regardless. Utterly haunting.

This was everything that I was hoping for from a scifi gothic thriller novel. It had that element that I was looking for and enjoyed the idea of all of someone’s architecture being haunted. The characters were well written and enjoyed that the building worked overall in this. Arkady Martine has a great writing style and worked with the genre.

I love Arkady Martine so I wanted to love this novella more than I did. I think this particular genre just didn't work for me. It was well written and kept my attention (though not the author's best work), and I enjoyed the take on the future of the planet and concepts of AI, but it left too many things open ended for me to truly enjoy it. I know some people love that, deciding for themselves what the futures of the characters could be and what 'really happened', but I prefer things wrapped up with a neat bow.

An interesting novella, packed with interesting ideas, but it also didn’t quite click for me — the pacing seemed off, and some passages/scenes weren’t as well-written as I would have expected from Martine. Nevertheless, certainly worth checking out if you've enjoyed the author's work in the past. Maybe it just wasn't for me..

Rose/House is a future-noir haunted house book about na architect and a detective who return to a "haunt"; a house with an AI whose original creator and owner has died leaving the house to its own deliberations. When the house calls the China Lake precinct to report a dead body within its walls, Detective Maritza Smith contacts the architect's former protege, Dr. Selene Gisil, who has been unable to escape his legacy. No one can enter Rose House, the AI controlled home, except for Gisil, who has been designated its archivist, so the details of how someone gained entry, let alone a dead body, is a mystery.

Rose/House does a lot of speculating about the function of architecture as artistic expression beyond the function of shelter, and the role of humans as an integrated part of the structure itself. In that sense it's a thoroughly postmodern examination of the form viewed through the lens of Haunted House horror. Martine deftly weaves a tale with no easy conclusions, following the tropes of the inescapability of Haunted-House-as-trauma, while also using the inhuman AI as an ineffable stand-in for the unknowable supernatural.

If you like your horror fiction highly meta and speculative, this is a fun read.