Dwellers, by Eliza Victoria
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Eliza Victoria tells the story of two young men with the ability to inhabit other people’s bodies. They had chosen brothers Jonah and Louis as their new ‘hosts’. Then they find out that Jonah and Louis have deep, dark secrets of their own—in the form of a dead body in the basement.
Dwellers, by Eliza Victoria- Amazon Sales Rank: #991487 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-18
- Released on: 2015-06-18
- Format: Kindle eBook
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Talk about creeptacular—but in a good way! By Liana Smith Bautista | Will Read for Feels * This review was originally posted on my book blog, Will Read for Feels.It feels like Eliza Victoria’s books have been on my to-read list forever! In all honesty, I’d say that while I’d heard about her work, she really intrigued me at the Philippine Literary Festival in October of last year, where I attended a talk on the business side of writing in which she was a panelist. I met her briefly during the annual ReaderCon a month later (not that she’d remember) after a talk in which I was a panelist. I’ve read a few of her stories in anthologies since then and had bought volumes of her books I meant to start but didn’t (so many books, so little time, but that’s a rant for another day). Then I heard that her short novel Dwellers was a finalist for this year’s National Book Awards. And I decided it was a sign. This is it, I thought. I am going to read this. I don’t care that people say I should start with her short fiction anthologies. I’m reading THIS. BOOK. Glowing reviews from several writers and friends, including Anne, who listed it in her list of top non-romance reads by Filipino authors, just cemented the deal.So I bought it. And I read it. And allowed this author to slowly chip away at my cranium so that by the end of it, I half expected to find that blood and bone and bits of gray matter had trickled down the side of my head in a slow-moving waterfall, pumped out with every page turn, every chapter. In other, less purple words? I’ll give you two: Mind. Blown.Let me get one thing straight first. If you asked me outright, “Did you like the book?” I don’t know how I would answer it. “Like” seems like such a lukewarm word to describe something that elicited such a visceral reaction. To say yes would be inaccurate; I didn’t smile the entire time I was reading this book. I was stressed from the first page to the last. In fact, my husband came into the room just seconds after I read the final page, and he said my face was freaking scary, a dazed, utterly lethargic expression on it. I was lying down at the time, and when I got up, I actually did check the pillow to see if blood had seeped out of my ears. So, no, I didn’t “like” the book. And yet I’m going to tell every friend of mine who is a spec fic and/or mystery fan that if they read one book by a Pinoy this year, this needs to be it. Because, because. And you’ll probably only know what’s meant to come after the “because” after you’ve read it and had your own brain turned to so much stew and sludge.Okay. Enough drama. The story’s essentially a mystery with speculative fiction (I’d say it’s in the same continent as horror but not quite in the same country) elements as the two main characters in the story are essentially body snatchers who find themselves dwelling in the skins of brothers Louis and Jonah. The story is told from the point of view of the dweller inside Jonah (and already you know this is going to be a humdinger, right?). The dwellers share a house so the young man inside Louis, who happens to be the cousin of the one inside Jonah, can care for “Jonah,” whose legs have been severely injured after they crash their car.Together, the dwellers must get to know the men whose bodies they inhabit so as to fully take over their lives. They were running from a bad situation, but when they find a body of a college girl in a freezer in their basement, they have got to be wondering if they haven’t just stepped out of the frying pan and into the fire. Now they need to find a way to get themselves out of a decidedly sticky situation, and it seems the best way is to find out how the girl died. At the same time, though, they also need to lay low in the hope that the past they were running from in the first place doesn’t catch up with them.As far as liking goes, I liked the character of “Louis” much more than I liked “Jonah” (I’m using quotes because it’s essential to remember that we never actually meet the real Louis and Jonah, only the people residing inside their bodies). This is mostly because of the two, “Louis” seems more of a doer, while “Jonah” seems more of a wallower, in that he tends to spend too much time in his own head, dwelling (haha) on the past and on what ifs. Although this isn’t really a criticism of the character, as it makes the storytelling from his point of view all the more believable.As far as the mystery goes, Victoria kept me guessing right up until the big reveal at the end. All I knew until that point was that there was no way this could end with a happily ever after. Her pacing was spot-on, slow enough to let the dread and curiosity build, but fast enough to keep me turning pages so that the curiosity never turned into frustration. The end didn’t come as too much of a surprise, as she’d laid the groundwork for it with a masterful hand, but it wasn’t what I expected either, so she gets full points for that.The only thing that kept me five-starring this read (and it’s minor, really) was that there were moments when I had to consciously suspend disbelief regarding the setting and investigation. Setting-wise, the author referenced the Philippines so as to leave one in no doubt as to what country this took place in, but the house and characters didn’t really seem typically Filipino (flooding ensures that few houses have basements, and the names of the characters are somewhat on the rare side; I think I would’ve had an easier time believing in a “Luis” over a “Louis”). Investigation-wise, let’s just say that with regard to the body that was found, I had to tell myself repeatedly that DNA matching must not have been an option for law enforcement.Nitpicking aside, though, this is a seriously good novel, and I will certainly not be waiting months before reading the other Eliza Victoria books I already have in my Kindle app. A word of warning, though: while seriously good, it is also seriously creepy, so it would be best to prepare yourself as this author will stick fingers into your brain and wiggle them about, then tug at your entrails in certain parts, just for fun.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Captivating! By Kristel V. I've always been a fan of crime and suspense stories, and this is by far, one of the nicest books I've read! I love how the touch of fantasy (the main characters have powers to inhabit other's bodies) was thrown into the plot, giving more shine to the story and making it unique from the other crime stories I've read. I also love the pacing because no scene or character was wasted, keeping me guessing what will unfold next. Even the circumstances of the main characters were planted so well (e.g. Jonah getting trapped on a wheelchair after the car accident) that it added more weight and intensity on their predicament. I wish more readers will discover this, because I believe that it is at par with some of the Western crime/suspense stories I've read.
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