{"id":3516,"date":"2024-03-07T21:06:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T21:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2024-03-24T17:12:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T17:12:05","slug":"we-used-to-live-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3516","title":{"rendered":"We Used to Live Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hands down the creepiest book we\u2019ve reviewed this year, if not in several years. Charlie and Eve are a gay couple who make their living buying and flipping old houses. Their current project is in the rural Pacific Northwest, far from their roots on the East Coast. A family drops by one afternoon<br \/>\n\u2014Eve is all alone while Charlie is running errands\u2014and the father says he grew up in the house and could he show the kids around? It takes a bit of cajoling, but Eve eventually gives in\u2014huge mistake\u2014because once they\u2019re in the house, the weird and the worrisome begin to present themselves. The youngest daughter disappears. The basement is home to supernatural presences. Objects vanish. Charlie returns, although she doesn\u2019t offer the support Eve needs. As the day goes on, it becomes clear that the family can\u2019t leave\u2014a winter storm has descended on them\u2014but it gradually becomes even clearer that they have no intention of leaving. <strong>Crazily suspenseful, but a tad more horror than mystery, the story moves at a fast clip as the reader slips from one reality to another in this accomplished debut.<\/strong> To be released as a Netflix original film starring Blake Lively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hands down the creepiest book we\u2019ve reviewed this year, if not in several years. Charlie and Eve are a gay couple who make their living buying and flipping old houses.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[163,50,51],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-book-of-the-week","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Live-Here-400x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Live-Here-400x600.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}