Release Day Review: The House at Watch Hill (Watch Hill Trilogy #1) by Karen Marie Moning

 

 

 

#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning is back with a gripping, imaginative, and seductive new series in which a young woman moves to Divinity, Louisiana, to inherit a large fortune and a Gothic mansion full of mysteries and ominous secrets...

Zo Grey is reeling from the sudden death of her mother when she receives a surprising call from an attorney in Divinity, Louisiana, with the news she has been left an inheritance by a distant relative, the terms of which he will only discuss in person. Destitute and alone, with nothing left to lose, Zo heads to Divinity and discovers she is the sole beneficiary of a huge fortune and a monstrosity of a house that sits ominously at the peak of Watch Hill—but she must live in it, alone, for three years before the house, or the money, is hers.

Met with this irresistible opportunity to finally build a future for herself, Zo puts aside her misgivings about the foreboding Gothic mansion and the strange circumstances, and moves in, where she is quickly met by a red-eyed Stygian owl and an impossibly sexy Scottish groundskeeper.

Her new home is full of countless secrets and mystifying riddles, with doors that go nowhere, others that are impossible to open, and a turret into which there is no visible means of ingress. And the townspeople are odd…

What Zo doesn’t yet know is that her own roots lie in this very house and that in order to discover her true identity and awaken her dormant powers, she will have to face off against sinister forces she doesn’t quite comprehend—or risk being consumed by them.

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What I thought about The House at Watch Hill

In this first book of a new series from Karen Marie Moning, the familiar themes of good versus evil, light versus dark, and the gray in between are examined through the lens of a young woman who has everything to gain and nothing to lose. Zo Grey inherits the town matriarch's property in Divinity, Louisiana and it comes with some mind-blowing conditions. Fans of this author's Fever series will find similar themes in the Watch Hill series, especially Celtic folklore.

There's plenty of supernatural elements at the House at Watch Hill, a gothic monstrosity that is both extremely creepy and devastating beautiful.  There's a terrifically unsettling atmosphere throughout this book and I really liked that aspect of the book.  It had me a little nervous about what was to come, and yet had me turning those pages as fast as I could! Such a gothic feel to this story and I adored that. The house is a character all its own in this story.

This book lays the ground work for what is to come in this story. Zo suddenly finds out many things about herself that have her emotions all over the place. She's a sometimes-likable character with a healthy rebellious streak which gets her in trouble. There are also external forces in play as well, others in the supernatural community that want what Zo has in the House at Watch Hill.

I haven't been able to get this story out of my head since finishing it.  I thought The House at Watch Hill a solid start to what I hope will be a very exciting ride. Can't wait for more!

About KMM

Karen Marie Moning is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fever Series and the Highlander series. She is a winner of the prestigious RITA award for best paranormal romance and is a multiple RITA award nominee, and a Goodreads Reader’s Choice Award winner. An alum of the Immaculate Conception Academy, she attended Purdue University where she completed a BA in Society & Law, with minors in Philosophy, Creative Writing and Theatre.

Prior to becoming a full time writer, she worked in the insurance industry directing commercial litigation and intercompany arbitration. She agrees with Jorge Luis Borges that paradise must be some kind of library.

https://karenmoning.com/

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