First House Horrors: Give Unto Us is a Gripping, Mesmerizing Tale of What Evil is Hidden for First-Time Homebuyers

 

 

Give Unto Us

Justin Lutz

Ghoulish Books, 2024

142 ppg., Ebook

ISBN-10: 1943720991

ISBN-13: 978-1943720996

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When most people buy a house, they typically ask about anything needing repairs, issues the old tenants had and what sort of things they might need to take care of before moving in. But sometimes, no matter how well you inspect the property of a house you consider buying, the bad thing lurking on the property is hidden. So it’s missed during inspection.

 

That’s what happens for Trevor Davis, when he and his wife, Melissa, purchase a house next to a river. Trevor only sees the river, fishing, lake days. He doesn’t see the monster that is hiding in the backyard.

 

But can anyone, really? It’s hidden so well. So well, in fact, that at first sight, everybody thinks it ‘s just typical sand. But it’s not your typical sand. Not by a long shot. And the young couple with a baby soon discover that their new home came with something the realtor neglected to mention.

 

This is a story that grabbed my interest from the very beginning. In fact, I zoomed through this story, devouring its pages, hungry for more.

 

And “hungry” is a term that will show up in this story. A lot.

 

I loved how there was so much mystery surrounding the house. See, the neighbors knew the previous tenant, and apparently, something that happened to him none of them really talk about. And one neighbor in particular knows something about the Bad Thing in the backyard.

 

This is definitely a story packed with suspense, excitement and terror from the very beginning. The characters get ideas in their heads they know they can’t be thinking – like, they weren’t REALLY thinking that, right? They weren’t really about to do something horrible … right? Well, they don’t know, and we don’t know until we get much later into the story. The Bad Thing in the backyard may be hiding, but it won’t stay hidden forever. It’s hungry. Hungry for something the new homeowners may or may not be able to feed it.

 

Give Unto Us is a gripping and terrifying story of how something not of this world slowly tightens its grip around the weakest link. With their last grip of reality slowly dropping away like sand through an hourglass, Trevor and Melissa Davis are at the mercy of something too powerful to escape from.

 

REVIEWER NOTE: While I really enjoyed reading this story, I must say that, as a recovering alcoholic, it was hard to get through most of it. The booze flows freely in this story and all of the adults are always drinking, it seems. So if you’re a recovering alcoholic like me, I must warn you to prepare for reading about this in the story.

 

 

Five stars

 

 

 

Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.