I loved this very much! The characters, the actions and even the plot itself! Very inspiring for my own book too!

I wasn't able to finish this one. The characters fell completely flat and it didnt hold my interest.

The House That Fell From the Sky sounds intriguing and certainly starts strongly. Scarlett is with her father when strange things start happening; A strange hum, booming noises, flashes of light, a coldness settling over everything. All of this happens within the first pages as does the discovery of the house that appeared from nowhere and could have simply fallen from the sky. Only no one can access the house as it seems to choose when and who can access its interior and those that do come out changed.

Imagine my surprise then when nothing happens with the house for a year. It just sits there. After the exciting first chapter, the first half of the book focuses on Scarlett, her friends, and what journeys they took to get them to this place and time. However, the timeline of the story is not linear which I found distracting. I just wanted them to hurry up and get in the house already! The back and forth time jumps exploring the characters' relationships were intended to serve the purpose of securing an emotional attachment to the characters but left me impatient instead.

Then comes the actual house. Its massive Gothic facade covers several city blocks. With "menacing" verandas and "pallid" eaves, there seems to be an attempt to anthropomorphize the house. I feel like the author really missed his calling as an architect. Onion domes and Cyclopean masonry--the descriptions are lengthy and wordy to the point of tediousness. Every new room explored inside the house involves description upon description. While, yes, we want to be shown what they are seeing, the focus on crown molding was unstimulating.

The House That Fell From the Sky fell flat for me. The idea is fascinating but I didn't find myself caring about the characters or cheering them on to win, except for Vincent the magician. There's potential for real horror here, but it's lost under all the copious amount of filler.

First, I wanted to love this book so much, and it has a lot of positive things going for it in the first chapters. This was my first title from this author, and I was immediately intrigued by the book’s cover and description.

I like the idea /Premises/theme behind, and this storyline is kind of unique from typical horror stories. Also, the cover is very eye-catching, creative illustration work and the author has great imagination and creativity. An Adventure tour in a gothic mysterious creepy mansion is right up my alley.

That being said, there are few Minuses that make me land on 3 Stars.

For the entire story, I could not connect with the characters and felt the first half of the story is boring without a plot twist. There is too much description rather than actions, at one point I felt too much time spent describing things that aren’t that important. The main characters are almost adults but their dialogs and actions make me feel that I’m with a bunch of teenagers. But I like their friendship and the bond they have with each other.

This is more like a Fantasy Horror story where you feel you are in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory with a spooky vibe rather than going inside Haunted Hill house or Winchester mystery house.

That being said, I may not have been the perfect audience for this book. But I Still looking forward to reading more books from this author and recommend this book to anyone who loves to have an adventure in a spooky mansion.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this e-book in exchange for an honest review.
I Highly Appreciate it for giving me a chance to read The House that Fell from the Sky.

this had what I look for in a mystery horror novel, it had the suspenseful atmosphere and I really enjoyed reading this book.

The House that Fell from the Sky has a glorious cover. I was so ready for a spooky haunted house story. I couldn't end up finishing this one. I got about 15% and realized it's taking way too long to get to the action. There's not even build up, it's just the characters interacting with one another. I wish that was shaved down a lot as I really wanted to enjoy this. I will come back to it at another time but as of now, I will not be finishing this title. Thanks so much for the copy of this book.

I had high hopes for this book and even thought this would be the perfect Halloween read. Sadly it's not as great as I thought it would be. First of all, I think the author is really creative. For a debut, this is really imaginative. But I found the execution of the plot underwhelming. First, I didn't like the story going from the present to the past and back and forth. I didn't see the need for it. And so I think the book, this very long book could've edited more and shorter.

I also found the characters uninteresting and really can't see them as almost in their thirties. They're more like teenagers in my mind which is weird. I think no one among the main characters stood out. Scarlett is a bit lacking as the main character. Her character could do more polishing. I don't her to be perfect but it turns out that I would've loved Jackson or even Tommy to be the main character. Hannah, I don't like her at all.

Overall, this book is just an OK read. It's imaginative but definitely not creepy at all. It's a bit weird but not as interesting as I wanted it to be.

Thank you to Netgalley and the author for the review copy!

THIS BOOK WAS GREAT! I am a huge horror fan, rather it is books or movies. This book did not let me down. I loved this story so much. It gave me all feels I was looking for. I could see reading this in October and but I couldn't wait so I had to read when it when I got approved! This plot and story were done great and so easy to follow. I had all the chills I wanted from this. The characters were written very well! I felt like I was in the middle of Hill House! I loved this! I will make sure to check out other works by this author!

I highly recommend this read!

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC of this book. I actually DNF this one. Maybe I will go back to it later? Just didn't like the writing style and it was longgggggg.

I am a fan of horror and paranormal. It calls to me like the moon does the ocean.

Scarlett is a horror review vlogger who has had a change in her life and on the night of her final vlog a giant house- 7 stories of house- falls from the sky inter Winterview. No one knows the how or why of where it came from, but it is front and center and has everyone curious and in need of answers. The four friends find themselves drawn to the house for various reasons and win their way inside to try and find their own answers.

Will they be the same when they come out?

The characters came across as being older teenagers or young college kids, not the late twenty-somethings that they are. I found that sort of maturity lacking and almost a turn off as a reader. I will say that I did fall in love with some of the characters. Out of Scarlett, Tommy, Jackson, and Hannah; I will say that Jackson and Scarlett are definite favorites for me. Jackson was likeable from the get-go and a well created character with loads of personality and a great back story. Scarlett’s relationship to her dad was amazing and well drafted as well- it was a shame however that he just kind of fizzled out of the story. Hannah left quite a bit to be desired and fell flat at times.

I was excited to read The House that Fell from the Sky by Patrick Delaney. With that being said, it wasn’t the fun and easy read that I was expecting. It got off to a super slow start and took quite a bit of time for me to fall into.

This is a reluctant DNF for me. I love suspenseful, creepy, horror stories. I love haunted house stories. But this a chore to read, and no matter how I try to push through it's not getting any better.

There's something off about the writing style. I keep having to reread paragraphs. Chapter to chapter, I frequently question if I'm missing something or if details have been omitted. I'm so confused about the main character's conflict. I read a review that said she had a major break up. I cannot remember where that was ever discussed, and if the author purposely omits that in the beginning for suspense, it's not suspenseful, just confusing.

The pacing is strange. There's an internal conflict, flashing lights, major disaster, then suddenly we're dress shopping? There's so much dialogue to lay out Scarlett's special, snarky character, and not enough effort to set the story.

I can't spend any more time on this book. It's reading way too slow and way too much work. But thank you NetGalley and Oblivion Publishing for a copy of this in exchange for my honest review.

There were many things I loved about the story, the characters and the whole atmosphere and cool action packed scenes we got in the second half.

Unfortunately this book felt too long for me and I feel like it would have benefited if it would have been edited down. We spend half of the story just building things up and this might discourage many readers to keep going.

The concept was one of my favorite things from the book. We have a small town that on Halloween night feels what it seems to be an earthquake. However they soon will find out that a strange building has dropped from the skies, a house.

No one can seem to figure out where it came from, how to get it or why this happened.

Our characters are a group of friends that are supposed to be more adult than they read. They definitely felt not mature enough for their age in the book. Scarlett is our main character. A youtuber that talks about horror movies and feels like she might need a break from social media. Together with her brother and friends they will find themselves way closer to the house than they should have.

The second act of the book had a great atmosphere and I loved the changing rooms, the fantasy mixed with horror and how we get to see the character's true colors and discover all their backstories.

This book was in general a good read but there is so much that could have been edited down in order to make it more accessible and entertaining since it dragged a bit in parts.

’When twenty-nine-year-old Scarlett Vantassel comes to the conclusion that her life doesn’t resemble any of the things she actually wanted for herself, she drops out of school and moves back home, attempting to reconnect with the people she left behind.

’But a shadow falls over her return one early October morning when a sinister house miraculously appears in the center of the city, sparking a media frenzy that attracts attention nationwide.’

THE HOUSE THAT FELL FROM THE SKY read like a mix between THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1999) meets a demented version of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY meets Shirley Jackson’s THE LOTTERY.

Minus the demented doctors, Oompa Loompa’s, and stoning, of course, though death may be a guarantee for those who dare enter.

What would you do, how would you act if a huge house materialized out of nowhere smack dab in the middle of your town? Especially when the short buildup before the said event at the beginning of the book (excellent, by the way) had me saying out loud, ’Oh S#%!’

I personally would be pretty freaked out, yet curious. The characters in the book, however, at times don’t seem to be that bothered by the mysterious house; others are labeled as ’crazy’ early on for showing interest in this anomaly. It almost feels like business as usual among them.

Another bit of confusion is when two of the main characters, who are said to be an around thirty and older, act like juvenile delinquents when a few hours after the house appears, they decide to spend five hours leaving eight hundred pink balloons in the halls of their old high school as a prank.

If the characters were teenagers or younger, their dialogue and actions would be believable. The oldest is said to be around thirty-three, and the visual feel off by comparison.

I love the intermittent flashbacks of each of the main characters throughout, giving the reader a glimpse of some heartbreaking moments that lend to their struggles later in life.

As the mysteries of the house revealed, I must say Delaney’s writing is beautiful, passages I would share if they didn’t include spoilers.

Though THE HOUSE THAT FELL FROM THE SKY didn’t take off all the boxes for me, I do look forward to seeing what Patrick Delaney comes up with next.

One of my favorite passages, from the midway point in the book and that contains a perfect amount of creepy:

’”It made me see things,” he said with remorse. “It made me do things. I let them in. I let them in,” he rambled, slipped out of sanity, and checked in with madness.

”Let who in?”

The man gulped down the rest of the whiskey, slamming the glass down on the countertop. “Them.”’

Thank you, NetGalley and Oblivion Publishing, for loaning me an eGalley of THE HOUSE THAT FELL FROM THE SKY in exchange for an honest review.

Thanks to, NetGalley and the publisher for sending me this book.

However, considering the size of my TBR stack, the large length of this book, and its inability to catch my attention, I will have to move it to my very small DNF stack for another time. This book is not drawing me in, nor have I felt any genuine interest to keep pushing myself through it. It's not like it's a quick book to move through, and I have so many other good books waiting for me. All of this and my new job changing my schedule up enough that I barely have time to read, equal me having to put this one down. That being said, I will try returning to it in a few months once I work through my TBR stack, and then give it another chance. When I do, I will update my reviews/feedback all around.

Again, thank you! My star rating is solely based on the fact I was not allowed to submit this feedback without one being attached.

DNR due to severe post-covid asthenia. Cause still being researched. Will review when possible. Sorry for this delay.

Who doesn’t love a good haunted house story? (I’m just living for the launch of The Haunting of Bly Manor). The House That Fell From the Sky gives a new twist to the genre. This is not your typical haunted house; it’s filled with complexities and, for the most part of the story, the characters can’t even get in! But when they do enter the house they are mind boggled. We, as readers, can really sense the confusion and fear of the four friends thanks to the author’s vivid descriptions and ability to build mystery and tension. I’m sure glad I never had to set foot in there!

The sad thing for me was, that while the premise of The House That Fell From the Sky showed promise, I personally wasn’t able to engage with the book. I think this mostly had to do with the characters. I found them underdeveloped and immature. Without the blurb, I would have assumed them teenagers and not in their late twenties. Admittedly, I did find the story itself a bit dragged out too with no real action until the end.

However, that’s just my word. I’ve read many reviews on Goodreads where the person really enjoyed The House That Fell From the Sky. So, if haunted houses really are your thing, I’d recommend heading over there first rather than taking my little ol’ review at face value.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley.

This was a really strong debut novel however I think the editing let the book down. At 500 plus pages there really was a lot of book to get through! The main characters should have been younger too, they certainly didn't act almost 30. That being said the story while they were in the house was pretty much what I hoped it would be - weird things happening, circular loops of the crazy house etc. I would like to read more by this author as I did enjoy his debut novel.

I am a big horror fan though I’ve never really branched into horror books. I am so glad I finally took the plunge.
This book was the first thing I thought about when I woke up, constantly trying to find time to keep reading this book.
Though it had a bit of a slow start I was intrigued. At around 35% it really picked up and there were a few twists and turns along the way.
I highly recommend this book to all horror fans out there.
Given the opportunity would you enter the house that fell from the sky? I know I would.
I found Scarlett’s character very relatable what with being an avid horror fan who never really knew where my place was in the world.
This book was very descriptive and really well written in my opinion.
I can’t wait to see what else Patrick R. Delaney has got in store for us.

I can’t continue reading this one. It’s just not believable to me. These adults trying to act and talk like teenagers. I mean get real.
I really am sorry but for me to enjoy a book it has to be somewhat believable. I read almost half and am giving up.

Thank you NetGalley, PatrickDelaney, OblivionPublishing. This my thoughts little as it is.

2/3 stars and please don’t waste your time. It’s just not that good. At least to me it’s not.

Let me begin this review by highlighting these characters should not be in their late 20's - it just doesn't work! They all sound like late teens which, for me, detracted from the story. Right, now that's out of the way, the novel itself sounds like a horror fans dream - mysterious house falls from the sky. However, it then moves in an odd direction with a 'sinister' organisation offering a cash prize to stay overnight in this house - a plot point which takes a long time to come. This novel is 500 pages long and, being honest, I felt that - the dialogue was long-winded, the main character frustrating especially when other characters felt more suited to the main, and the awkward dialogue for their supposed ages really threw me off. I did enjoy the house horror and this review is worth a star for this aspect alone. The issue I guess is it takes too long to build the journey and then feels like it doesn't go anywhere. Interested to read another novel by the author so long as the characters ages fit their tone!