The Review 

This was an incredibly intense and difficult book to process. The themes it deals with are heavy, confronting, and often deeply uncomfortable. At its heart, this book is about identity, trauma, and the ways people are shaped and damaged by the world around them. One of the most striking elements of the novel is its exploration of LGBTQ identity and the pressures placed on queer people by both society and family. The characters are navigating a world that is openly hostile to

Some horror fiction relies on monsters. Some rely on violence. Some rely on making you question what’s actually real. We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer falls firmly into that last category. This book is creepy, unsettling, and genuinely imaginative. The premise is incredibly simple. A couple are renovating their new house when a family shows up at the door asking if they can look around. One of them claims to have grown up there and just wants to show the place to their