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Haven

by Mia Dalia
Rachel L. Jacobs
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What if revenge ripples and echoes through time?

You can't choose your family or your destiny or your legacy. But once upon a time, a woman named Ava St. James had tried to build happiness upon the remains of her broken heart. For better or worse. Decades later, the Bakers are headed for a perfect family vacation. A full month at a house by the lake; the house passed down from a mysterious aunt no one ever talks about. Love and good intentions aside, what begins like a relaxing vacation turns into a nightmare as each of the Bakers' nerves slowly but steadily begin to wear away at the edges. Is it their fraught family dynamics or is something more sinister at work?

The house has welcomed them, but will it ever let them leave?

For readers who enjoy The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno, and Devil House by John Darnielle.

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  • Release date

    October 29, 2024

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780744311433
      • File size: 287632 KB
      • Duration: 09:59:13

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Rachel L. Jacobs, Jane Oppenheimer, and Rene Ruiz lend their considerable talents to this story of a house bequeathed to a family by an unknown aunt. The Baker family is vacationing at the house. While they had hoped the vacation would bring them closer, instead they start turning on each other--with devastating consequences. Oppenheimer tells the aunt's backstory, tracing her path from family outcast to vengeful woman. Ruiz portrays the father, an optimist who is the brunt of family jokes, and son JJ, an awkward, overweight, pimply teenager who is tired of being ostracized. Jacobs portrays the perfectionist mom, Jenna, who is embarrassed by her family and obsessed with appearance, along with daughter Jessie, who is obsessed with her weight and social standing. Dysfunction is this family's legacy. L.M.G. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine
    • Booklist

      Starred review from October 1, 2024
      Dalia follows Estate Sale (2023) with an eerie psychological thriller. The chapters alternate between five voices, four contemporary and one retrospective. Jenna (n�e Doyle) and Jeff Baker and their children, Jessie and JJ, are taking a free, month-long vacation at a lake house. The house is available through a Doyle family timeshare, inherited from an eccentric but rarely mentioned Aunt Gussie. Each of the Bakers is dissatisfied with their current situation but unsure how to make life better. Jeff's well-paying, middle-management job has little chance for advancement, but he seems content with Jenna and his two children. While wishing her kids were less self-involved with their devices, Jenna distracts herself with domestic thrillers and yoga, but she misses being the center of Jeff's attention. Sixteen-year-old Jessie is bulimic and obsessed with becoming famous online. At fourteen, JJ is vastly overweight and thoroughly fixated on violent video games. Interspersed between the Baker's tales is Gussie's story, set down as she reminisces on the few joys and numerous trials of her life. Horror fans who enjoy beautifully detailed characters and a subtle slide into dread and darkness set in a huge, creepy house will want to take this trip.

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    • Library Journal

      November 1, 2024

      The dysfunctional Baker family hopes to reconnect during a month-long vacation at an estate passed down to them by their mysterious aunt, Ava St. James. Complete with its own caretaker, Haven is a sprawling house that provides the perfect retreat. Though the family intends to use this vacation as a fresh start, long-held resentments and rivalries splinter them even further. As tensions rise, unsettling, unexplained occurrences endanger the entire family. Was the family always destined to unravel and implode, or is the house leading them down a sinister path? Dalia's (Estate Sale) latest is a dread-filled modern gothic tale where sordid family history and long-buried secrets lie in wait. Rachel L. Jacobs, Jane Oppenheimer, and Rene Ruiz tap into the story's suffocating atmosphere as they narrate the increasingly difficult family dynamics and the estate's troubling backstory. The dynamic narration helps listeners navigate shifts in time, which move from the current time period to the era in which the house was built. VERDICT This spooky listen is highly recommended for gothic fiction readers and fans of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.--Elyssa Everling

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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