From the bottom of my heart, thank you for the opportunity to be able to read this.
This was a great book!! The story was phenomenal!! My only issue with this book was the narrator, she was monotone to me. So that made parts of the book definitely drag on a bit, but all in all, it was great!! Just when you think you know what’s happening, guess again!!

I found this book to be quite unique and unsettling. It is a quite disturbing book, and I'm still undecided on whether I truly liked it or not. Some parts felt a bit predictable too. But on the positive side, the narrator did an excellent job bringing the story to life.

DNF

I have nothing sassy or negative feedback. I just was not feeling the book in the moment nor do I feel motivated to pick it up yet again.

This was a mix of Horror and Thriller which is 2 of my favorites! It makes for a great nail biting read. This kept me on the edge of my seat and wanting to know what is to come! chapter after chapter kept the whole book suspenseful. I was able to finish this in one day and I am so glad I did! I will definitely be adding Daisy Pearce to my favorite authors list!

Thank you to MacMillan Audio (#MacAudio) for the ALC, and St. Martin’s press and Netgalley for the ARC!

“You didn’t ask me what it feels like when dead people talk to me…it feels like biting into ice…”

This was not what I was expecting, but I really enjoyed it! The real star of this book was the atmosphere - it was so heavy and menacing, permeating very bit of the story. Our FMC wasn’t easy to relate to for me, but I was very interested in her work and what she was trying to do with Alice. As the story went on, it only got darker and creepier to the point where I would’ve been looking over my shoulder if it was night time! The witchy vibes/history also played a big part in this story. The majority of the book had me on the edge of my seat, but after all the suspense, the ending felt a little bit abrupt. But I still really liked this one!

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Thank you, NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for this audiobook for review. Well, that was fantastically creepy!! I loved it! Mina is a new child psychologist and is desperately trying to get experience in her field. She is still haunted by her brother’s death and meets a journalist at a bereavement meeting and he has a case for her. Alice, a 13 year old girl, is being haunted by a witch. Here is a chance for Mina to get experience as a child psychologists and Sam will get a great story and Alice will get better— wins all around. But as Mina speaks with Alice and tries to figure out what is going on with the child, her behaviors get worse, not better. This book is super creepy and super awesome on audiobook!!

I guess my issue with this is the description sets this up as a really unsettling paranormal story and it wasn't like that at all. I found the beginning of the book to be an amazing set up but there were so many underdeveloped elements that by the end, you're just left hanging.

Thank you for audiobook ARC! This is a slow burn for sure but the last few chapters are very intense. It has a cottage-witch vibe that is perfect for a spooky read! I appreciated the realism intertwined with the dark spiritual aspects.

Mina is a newer child psychologist who is thinking about her upcoming marriage. Her brother died years ago and she is still mourning his death. She attends a grief group to help her with her brother’s death. That is where she meets Sam, a journalist. Alice is 13 and the town thinks she is possessed. Sam wants Mina to help Alice and in exchange he will get a great story. Mina agrees thinking she will be able to help Alice, but instead she gets worse.

This book was creepy. A good creepy. If you like the abnormal, witches, creepy/scary, then this book is for you. I can definitely see this being turned into a movie.

I enjoyed the narrator and thought she did a great job, but I had to listen to it at 2x speed.

I was very excited when I read the description for this book. I listened to the audiobook and I liked the narrator. This story felt like something that would build into something exciting and creepy and great and it just never got there. The book was ok, but it was highly predictable. The only really firmly met horror trope was that I wanted to yell at the heroine for missing every clue. There is some interesting folklore and the characters had potential. Mina has just graduated as a child psychologist and she has her first “job” going with a person she met in a grief group to try to help a girl that seems to be haunted. She and Sam go to this small town to try to help Alice and her family, but the town is strange and while she doesn’t believe Alice is a witch some strange things are happening. The story was ok, it was creepy and definitely disturbing, but I found it to move slowly and be very predictable.

Something in the Walls is about a teen girl being haunted in a small Cornish town, and I was absolutely enthralled by it. Try this book out if you love small English towns, superstitious townsfolk, witches, and hauntings.

Child psychologist Mina travels to a small town in Cornwall with a journalist to investigate the haunting of a teen girl named Alice. Mina is right away thrown into a world where superstition reigns over science and she's not sure how to deal with it.

The beginning of this book really reminded me of the Conjuring 2 about the haunting in Enfield, which makes sense since that haunting is actually mentioned several times in the book. Maybe that's why I loved this book so much too, since I really love that movie, but I think there is just something about outsiders coming in to help with a haunting that I really love.

The setting of this book really shined, and both the town and townsfolk added a lot to the plot with a deep history of witch-hunting guiding the town with how they want to deal with Alice and Mina.

There is a mystery aspect that I figured out quite early on in the book, but that did not take away from my enjoyment of the story as a whole.

HUGE TRIGGER WARNING FOR CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE AND DEAD ANIMALS

Dnf at 87%

This book started out so creepy! I couldn't read at night scary, and then it fell flat and switched directions a bit. I'm a big believer in adding trigger warnings to the audio format, and It's totally my fault I didn't look at the authors website, but this book to a turn that I personally had no interest in reading.

However, besides that, this is a witchy, creepy book with an mfc that feels more detective than a psychologist. I didn't read until the end, so I don't know the wrap-up, but I'm sure this would be a big hit for Halloween reading!

I had a good time with this one! The vibes were immaculate and I LOVED the concept of a witch vs a demon or ghost. I truly love books that make you wonder if it's psychological or the ghoulies and I honestly thought it was truly a witch up until the end. Thank you so much for this!!

2.5 stars!
Mina is a new child psychologist struggling to get her feet underneath her. She is grieving the loss of her brother and attending a support group where she meets Sam, a journalist. Sam invites Mina to join him in investigating a young girl named Alice, who claims she is being haunted by a witch.

I liked the premise of this story, but I didn’t like how it was executed. Right from the start, the story pretty much lost me. Mina is not likeable, and her subplot of her upcoming marriage just didn’t seem important to me. While there were some creepy scenes, it was drawn out and repetitive.

Something in the Walls
Daisy Pearce
4 star
Mina Ellisis was recently certified as a child psychologist. It is difficult to pick up clients because of lack of experience. A friend she met at a grief support group, Sam, is a journalist. He is working on an unusual case that he believes will help Mina gain experience. He suggests she go with him to Babathel to interview Alice Webber. Thirteen-year-old Alice hears voices she believes there is a witch in the chimney. The town believes she is a witch.
The town of Babathel is small and has a reputation for being superstitious and believing in ancient myths. The reader will be looking over their shoulder for the boogey man. The atmosphere is one of alarm and danger. Some of the scenes in this book terrified me to the point I wasn’t sure I could read any more. The suspense and terror build until suddenly the plot takes an unexpected turn. Not all of the questions are tied up with a pretty bow, several are left unanswered. They are left for the reader to contemplate. Author Daisy Pearce allows the tension to slowly build. She knows how to build the atmosphere. The author is extremely talented. She has created a plot that is disturbing, intelligent, and filled with slow building terror.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

I'll be honest i wasn't sold on this book right away. Things were confusing and a bit slow but then after about a quarter of the way through things really got going. The mystery started to peel away and I really got interested. I will say though that I didn't care for the audiobook. I would stick with just reading the book.

I thoroughly enjoyed this arc! Our main character, a newly graduated child psychologist, joins a journalist to assess a young girl who is showing signs of “possession.” There are a lot of dark and ominous vibes as you continue through the story with a twist at the end that I didn’t see coming. I enjoyed the suspense the author built during intense scenes that left me very creeped out and a little spooked. I am giving this a 4 star because I’m left with a question about the ending still. Was Alice actually possessed? Was there a “witch?” Still creeped out!!!

The audiobook for this novel was one I kept coming back to. In stolen moments, in the middle of the night. The story and performance sucked me in from very early on, and I stayed locked in through the end. The ending itself caught me off guard and left me puzzling over it—and checking behind my back a bit as I slept.

There’s something about a small town that I always find a little unsettling. What’s more unsettling? A small town with witch lore. Something in the Walls brings a creepy and claustrophobic atmosphere with Midsommar vibes.

Mina, a new psychologist, takes on a case brought to her by a journalist. The case is a young girl in a small town who believes she is being haunted by a witch. Mina believes she can help Alice, but the girl’s actions become more and more inexplicable. The town has their own beliefs on witchcraft, and their own ways of dealing with it.

I enjoyed Something in the Walls! There are scenes that gave me the chills (I’m glad I don’t have a chimney). I found myself invested in Mina’s story and her desire to help Alice. I could definitely see this on as a movie! The pace slows down a bit in the middle, but keep going, the end will blow you away.

I recommend the audiobook. The narrator does a great job of bringing life to the characters.

Thrillers can be so hit and miss, and I'm happy to say I enjoyed this one more than I expected to! There were some parts that genuinely creeped me out, and because of the paranormal aspect of the story maybe, I didn't try so hard to predict or solve the mystery and therefore was surprised by the end.

Paranormal and thrillers readers will enjoy this one!

The audio is good! She is clear and easy to understand at a fast speed.

Thanks to Netgalley and MacMillan Audio for an arc to read and review voluntarily.