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Catherine House

The College That Won't Let You Leave...

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Catherine House

By: Elisabeth Thomas
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
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A dark, claustrophobic and compulsive novel, in the vein of The Water Cure, Never Let Me Go and Ottessa Moshfegh.

That was the Catherine experiment: give the house three years - three profound, total years - then become anything or anyone you want to be. Watch all your dreams come true.

Catherine House is an American college with a difference. Only the most brilliant minds enter, and its graduates earn prestige, wealth and honour. But over the three years they attend the school, they remain within its black gates; they have no contact with their loved ones; no association with the outside world. Those who break these rules will find themselves facing time in the school's infamous tower.

Ines enters Catherine House on the run from an incredibly dark secret and welcomes the school's isolation. Sharing a room with the sweet, damaged Baby, she slowly begins to build the group of friends she never had outside its walls. One day, however, Baby is summoned to the tower - and never returns. Ines is heartbroken, left to uncover the secrets that Catherine House conceals while slowly becoming more and more seduced herself by its dark, magnetic power.

Swirling with atmosphere and the subtle tingling of horror, Catherine House is a novel that will steal your heart and swallow you whole.

©2020 Elisabeth Thomas (P)2020 HarperCollins, Inc.
Fantasy Fiction Gothic Literary Fiction Magical Realism Scary Heartfelt

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Bland, Boring and Goes Nowhere

I did read a few reviews of this book and I completely agree with them, this book goes absolutely nowhere. You never find out anything interesting. I got through a good but of the story then gave up and skipped to the end to find out what happens. I will definitely be returning this book and getting that credit back because it is NOT a good book and incredibly boring though quite unsettling though I’m not sure why.




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A book of nothing

This book had a great premise to go somewhere or do something … anything. MC is empty and doesn’t pay attention to anything or explain anything she is doing herself. The feeling of nothingness intrigued me at the start but it is really a book of nothing. The narrator has a lovely voice and did a great job though.

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Could have been a good premise

The book started out with promise. However, it quickly went downhill afterwards.

It plodded on laboriously, and sadly, I did read until the end (with desperate hopes it would improve), but alas…

Don’t waist your time or money. This is not at all a good book. I’d give it zero stars if I could.

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