Book Review: Mouse Trap
By Jonathan Reddoch
If you like a bit of a fun cozy little scary read, I highly recommend Mouse Trap by Caryn Larrinaga. On the surface, it’s about the haunting of an ordinary house (or an ordinary family really), but it’s really about loss, grief, guilt, and anxiety.
The author does a brilliant job creating a mood of uneasiness, which builds the tension more and more. Larrinaga expertly implants dark imagery, setting up a little mystery, and providing just enough foreshadowing to keep you guessing.
The book is also quite short, which I always appreciate, and has small chapters, which is also nice for those of us who like to chunk out our reading.
I really enjoy a book that has good quotable lines. This book has plenty of those. I put a couple of my favorites below.
The only “criticism” I have is I wanted to learn more backstory about the monster, and I was expecting more of a personal connection to its origins. The story never went into how it got there or why. (Unless I missed it somewhere).
If you like the eerie creepy vibe of the Haunting of Hill House, then you should check this book out.
My favorite quotes:
“Whatever Lennox had put down there, she didn’t have the strength to see it.”
“Only darkness remained.”
“Dakato’s head spun. Too much of her reality was being pulverized at once.”