The Suicide House — Charlie Donlea

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | 4/5

Nothing says “healthy coping mechanism” quite like repeatedly returning to the abandoned house where a horrifying murder happened.

And yet, here we are.

The Suicide House drops us into an elite prep school where a brutal murder, a group of surviving students, and an abandoned boarding house are all connected in ways that absolutely no one seems interested in explaining properly.

Which, obviously, means I was immediately invested.

This book has several things I am apparently powerless against: creepy schools, buried secrets, suspicious teenagers, true-crime energy, and adults who clearly know more than they’re saying.

Rory Moore and Lane Phillips start digging into what actually happened, and the deeper they go, the more the entire story starts feeling like one giant red flag wearing a school uniform.

The atmosphere worked really well for me. There’s this constant feeling that something is off, and every new detail somehow makes everyone look even more suspicious.

My one complaint? The pacing.

There were parts where I was completely locked in and other parts where I wanted to grab everyone involved by the shoulders and yell, “CAN WE PLEASE GET BACK TO THE MURDER?”

But the mystery kept pulling me back.

The twists worked, the setting was creepy, and I spent enough time trying to solve it myself that I clearly had no intention of putting the book down.

WTP VERDICT

Dark prep school? ✔️

Abandoned murder house? ✔️

People behaving extremely suspiciously? ✔️

Me making wildly incorrect accusations? ✔️✔️✔️

RATING: 4 stars.

Not quite a drop-everything-and-cancel-my-life thriller, but absolutely the kind of book that kept me reading because I needed to know what the hell happened in that house.

And, for the record, if several people connected to one creepy abandoned building start dying?

I personally will not be visiting the building.

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