What started out as a simple, albeit rather sinister and morbid, hypothetical regarding how and why a doorless and windowless room would exist in a detached house uncovers a baffling and unsettling mystery. Or does it?
The first volume of The Strange House hooked me good with its chilling and intriguing blend of labyrinthian mystery and menacing atmosphere. What, if anything at all, was going on with the design plans of those houses?
Yes, houses. There are two of them. At the moment. But I would not be the least bit surprised if a few more strange houses were discovered in future volumes.
While I did hope and expect for there to be some intriguing developments in this second volume, which I was surprised and delighted to find I had to wait for, I was just a tad gobsmacked by the direction the story wound up taking.
It is still unclear as to whether or not there will be any kind of rational explanation here, or if there truly is something malevolent and murderous going on. As ludicrous and logic defying as the theories posited by the mystery loving Kurihara might seem to a rational mind, every revelation about the houses appear to point towards something odd and unusual.
Just how strange and how unusual the ultimate answers may or may not be remains to be seen. Judging by this volume's cliffhanger ending and its cryptic teasers for volume three, which will be released in April of 2025, whatever answers or questions are uncovered or asked are bound to chill and unnerve this particular reader.
April 2025. That's four months from now. I am going to have to wait four months to find out what happens next...
So it goes.
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