I had heard so much about this book and was delighted to get approved for it on audio. However I thought it was just ok and found the first part quite slow and dare I even say a bit boring . I think this author is very hit and miss for me . 2.5 ⭐️

Maybe my opinion is outlier on this, but the first 75% DRAGGED, and I almost didn’t finish it. The last quarter was actually really intriguing and brought the whole story together, and I love the haunting and eerie aspects of it. But that whole first chunk was not my favorite and brought my rating down.
Narrators did a great job, and I think the only way I was able to push through the book was because I listened to the audio.

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for my ALC in exchange for my honest feedback.

A decent mystery/ supernatural suspense. I’d definitely pass this along to people who might enjoy a bit of supernatural flavor with their domestic drama.

I love my husband. Even if I moved into the house in this book I could never do the things these people did to their spouses.... or could I? We Live Here Now? More like We're Gonna Live In Our Car Now Cause My Ass is GONE. Byyeeeee. And the fricken birds?! What the heck. What the actual hecking heck was up with them?! Yeah, weird creepy book. Read it, I guess.

This was one of my #MacAudio2025 picks for April.

This audiobook is narrated by Helen Baxendale, Jamie Glover & Sarah Pinborough

•Thank you to @macmillan.audio

I found this book to be an enjoyable read. The story kept me engaged from start to finish and had some moments that really stood out. Overall, it offered an entertaining reading experience.

I loved the twist in this one - super original thoughts and the writing moved at a steady pace. I enjoyed this

4.5 foreboding stars!

A couple moves into Larkin Lodge, an old country house on an isolated plot of land in Dartmoor. What should be the house of their dreams becomes a claustrophobic terror.

I loved this book! I was gripped by the dark and foreboding narrative from the very start. There is an engrossing sense of unease and paranoia that held me throughout. Strange occurrences happen that make the reader question if the unreliable narrator is believable and I was hanging on every word.

The wife is the main narrator and I loved her perspective! There are a couple other narratives scattered throughout which I thought were brilliant additions. Larkin Lodge is like a character itself that the novel is centered around and I loved the gothic and ominous tone it held over the story.

The chapters were short, making this easy to fly through. Highly atmospheric and addictive, this novel had me thinking of it even when I wasn’t reading it. This is my first experience with this author and I can’t wait to jump into her backlist books!

Audio rating: 5 phenomenal stars! The audio narrators were excellent! They suited their perspectives perfectly and immensely added to my overall enjoyment and connection. I highly recommend the audio!

Thank you to the publisher for my ALC!

Old boards creak at night, fires go out, and books fall from the shelves, and all of them stem from the terrible presence she feels in the third-floor room. But these things happen only when Emily’s alone, so are they happening at all?

Not a traditional haunted house novel, but a satisfying ghost story just the same.  Their new house is indeed haunted, but not with the kind of ghost you expect.
This has a very Gothic feel even though it doesn't take place in the distant past.
I listened to the audiobook for this and did like the narrators. 
I admit there were times I didn't like any of the characters here. They could be shallow, rude, and entitled.  The emotions the house cause in the 2 main characters were written so realistically I started talking back to the book, telling Freddy to grow up, telling Emy to stop being so controlling.  
That is a sign of some good writing.

The twists and surprises worked well and may come as a surprise t9 the reader who isn't paying attention.

I recommend this novel in any form, book, or audio. 

Thanks to @netgalley and MacMillan Audio for the opportunity to read this eArc in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion

"We Live Here Now" by well-known author, Sarah Pinborough, is a thriller/ gothic horror type of novel. I listened to the 9.5 hour long audiobook narrated by Helen Baxendale, Jamie Glover, and Sarah Pinborough. They did a great job!

The story is set in Dartmoor, England, in a remote country house called Larkin House, which I thought was called Lock-In House. It is set in the present day (cell phones) in this creaky and creepy old gothic type of house on a moor.

Emily and her husband, Freddy, have just moved there following her long hospital stay and lengthy coma. They are kind of strangers at this point. Emily starts seeing strange things in the house, and one room upstairs feels especially creepy.

She hears a bird flapping upstairs, and she lets it out the window. She cuts her foot on a nail stuck in the floor only to have no cut, nor blood later. Books fly off the shelves in the library.

Are these hallucinations brought on from post-sepsis?

Is Freddy gaslighting her to make her think she is crazy?

Or is the place actually haunted?

I wondered this through the whole book.

I have to be in a certain kind of mindspace to listen to this sort of book. It's pretty intense. This has short chapters and three points of view, including the raven's. It proceeds rather slowly, but speeding up the audio helped with that.

If you like creepy gothic thrillers and/or Sarah Pinborough, who brought us "Behind Her Eyes", check out this book. It would (and probably will) make a great movie!

Characters - 4/5 (the house is a character, too)
Writing - 5/5
Plot - 5/5
Pacing - 3/5
Unputdownability - 4/5
Enjoyment - 3/5
Narration - 5/5
Cover - 4/5
Overall - 33/8 = 4 1/8
Rounded to 4 stars.

Thank you to Netgalley, MacMillan Audio, and Sarah Pinborough for providing this audiobook in exchange for my honest review.

3.5 stars rounded to 4 stars.

I received an advance audiobook copy of We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough from netgalley.

I thought the narration was really well done and played out the story really well. The storyline and plot are easy to follow. The characters are interesting and the setting gives the perfect creepy vibe to add to the suspense thriller.

This book is 3.5 stars for me because it's slow. It too a bit too long to get to the odd happenings. Also, the mystery of their pasts takes a while to be revealed, and some of it isn't that shocking.

I do love the creepy suspense vibes though. And I enjoyed the mystery of it all.

I do recommend. And I'll be looking into more by this author.

After an accident that nearly kills her, Emily and her husband, Freddie, move from London to a beautiful Dartmoor country house called Larkin Lodge. The house is gorgeous, striking—and to Emily, something about it feels deeply wrong.

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan audio for the ALC.

From the beginning this story was atmospheric, haunting and intriguing. Loved the setting of an English country house with a storied and haunted past. I also enjoyed how this book explores the complexities of marriage, relationships and the secrets people keep from one another. This is a domestic thriller with a fun and unique twist with paranormal elements. I love how fresh and different Sarah Pinborough’s books are always going to be surprised. Truly a unique and special voice.

Multi cast narration is always a favorite of mine as it helps each character feel distinctive and memorable.

We Live Here Now had all the elements I usually love—an eerie atmosphere, unsettling undertones, and an unreliable narrator that keeps you questioning everything. There were definitely some creepy moments that gave me chills, and the ambiguity in the storytelling worked well at times.

That said, the pacing just didn’t work for me. It moved so slowly that I found myself losing interest more than once, and I kept waiting for something major to happen. The buildup dragged, and by the time things finally started to click into place, I was already halfway out of the story emotionally.

The unreliable narrator is what ultimately saved it from being a lower rating—there was something compelling about not knowing what to believe. But overall, this one was just okay for me. I wanted to love it, but it didn’t quite get there.

This was an enjoyable, spooky read. The narrators were great - I particularly love when we have multiple narrators performing multiple POVs in a story. Haunted houses aren't always my favorite but this was an engaging story. The writing was atmospheric and gave this gothic story even more depth.

Truly scary, intense and claustrophobic! As Pinsborough is so well-known for, this book builds the suspense to a creepy crescendo with a truly shocking ending, yet one that you could read in the tea leaves as you put together the well-arranged pieces of the mystery. Sarah Pinsborough always manages to make me read (or in this case, listen) with my jaw dropped, and the narrator did a fantastic job conveying the claustrophobic and intense atmosphere of the dreaded house. I love a haunted house mystery with a twist and this one is well-explained and well-plotted with intriguing characters and creepy plot devices that are intricately planned to get you to the scary ending. As always, Pinsborough leaves you satisfied while still always ready for more from her twisted and fantastic mind! She does a great job of actually making you FEEL the terror the characters experience, and the audiobook narrator and her fantastic acting were a perfect complement to this author's skill.

Narrators: 5/5
Plot: 2/5

I'm really torn on how to feel about this because this had so much potential to be a five star book, but I feel like nothing actually happened? There were moments of true terror and creepiness, but that all was completely dropped by the end of the book with an incredibly unsatisfactory ending. It was so painfully bleak to learn about our main characters and for THAT to be the ending. I also loathed the crow sections, but that's a personal preference not enjoying animal death scenes.

The entire book just felt like it was leading up to something intense and world-changing, but it didn't. This either needed to lean more into the horror or more into the mystery. Basically the horror was good until the end and the mystery had a great twist, but wasn't very interesting leading up to the twist. The author needed to just lean more into the story.

Basically this story had so much potential, but ended up falling flat, especially with that ending.

3.5 stars
What did I just listen to?! It was well narrated but definitely took a few minutes to process after that ending!
If you’re looking for a book that’s equal parts spooky and crazy, look no further. On the surface, this book appeared to be a domestic thriller with unreliable characters. But wait, there’s more! We’ve got all the Halloween vibes with a haunted house, ghosts, and more. I don’t want to spoil the twists and turns. Go in expecting the unexpected and enjoy the crazy ride!

We Live Here Now is a gothic thriller filled with twists and I never really knew which direction we were going to turn next! I really enjoyed the dual narration in the audiobook specifically, and the chilling atmosphere in the story in general. The overwhelming feeling of claustrophobia made me feel like I was right there in the house with them! Plus I love a morally grey cast with a bunch of weird dynamics to explore. Another great book by Sarah Pinborough!

Thank you so much to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for my gifted audiobook copy!

Story is a little slow and boring, but I continued on to see what the twist might be. I don't really care for first POV where the character continues to say they have a secret but it takes awhile for the secret to be shared. Author does a decent job of creating a spooky atmosphere but there wasn't a very good pay off.

We Live Here Now starts off slow, but once it finds its rhythm, it gets really interesting—and spooky in all the right ways. I loved the short chapters, which kept the pace moving and made it easy to get sucked in once things picked up. That ending was great and dare I say a little cheeky. If you like atmospheric reads that sneak up on you, this one's worth sticking with.

I love a good haunted house story and this one was definitely good!!!

After Emily is seriously injured in an accident, her husband decides to buy the country of state. She’s been eyeing as a perfect spot to recuperate and leave London behind.

Everything looks perfect like a storybook when they arrive but soon Emily starts feeling like she’s not alone… her health is still not 100% there so Freddy and the doctors seems she’s just hallucinating and experiencing post sepsis symptoms since she is still medically fragile.

Emily is not going to let that stand. She starts to investigate the house… secrets are bubbling up, and not just about the house!

This was a classic haunted house thriller, and it literally gave me chills! I absolutely loved going through this book and getting the great reveal at the end!

The narration trio of Helen Baxendale; Jamie Glover and Sarah Pinborough, did an excellent job bringing their characters to life! The different narrators brought different aspects of the story to the forefront, and all did a great job with their characters. Each narrator also delivered the suspense excellently.