I received a free ARC of Whickering Place by London Clarke from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.
The Whickering Place is a good book, but not necessarily for me. The story is a great paranormal story with plenty of horror, suspense, and vampires. I had my daughter (20's age group) also read this as she loves these types of stories and she thought it was great. She is planning to buy the series. The story is well written and well told, just not so much my taste in stories. Good job London Clarke!

Whickering Place:Legacy of Darkness Book 2.
by London Clarke
2019
BooksGoSocial
5.0/5.0
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In Book 2 of the Legacy of Darkness series by London Clarke, the suspense builds, as we find Avery Tullingers father, Ace, has committed suicide. Avery and Ace were not close, but she was his last living heir, she inherited his mansion, Whickering Place, in Ashville, North Carolina. Avery is agoraphobic, likes her solitude and thinks this mansion might a perfect move for her. She moves in to find 2 other tenants, both brothers, in the medical field. Avery agrees to let the brothers stay and keeps the cleaning crew. Soon Avery begins to learn about her father's past as part of a dangerous cult, The Colony, whose members are vampire-like and have used the mansion as a meeting place.....among other things....
What seemed a therapeutic move slowly begins to turn into a nightmare, Avery must learn to conquer her fears to survive Whickering Place.
London Clarkes stories always involve a creepy gothic-like house that fit perfectly and totally drive the eeriness factor. I love how she melds the personality/history of the house with the life of the tenants. An atmosphere so macabre and frightening, characters that are engaging with just the right hint of strangeness...making you feel uncomfortable, totalling having to know if Avery is safe....amazing. I am totally looking forward to the next book in the Legacy of Darkness, due in 2020.
Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for sending this requested ARC e-book for review.

Vampires........I don’t do Vampires!!! they are on my no-no list. I thought this was a supernatural and haunted house themed book until I started reading it. What a pleasant surprise I got. Apart from one small lull in the middle it was a fast-paced and fascinating read. I had mixed emotions, feeling this was a modern day story but somehow I got a feeling of the past too.I will be definitely be reading the next book in the series. Many thanks to Netgalley and Books Go Social for giving me the opportunity
to read this magical book.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC of this book. I didn't realize the was part of a series, but nonetheless, I read it and enjoyed it. Going to go back and read the first one now.

Vampires, demons, haunted houses, OH MY.

This was a unique book and I'm happy I got the chance to read it. I haven't been reading much horror lately but as soon as I saw a description for a haunted house I was ALL OVER THIS.

It begins with blood. Avery and her boyfriend are stabbed and it leads to two lies ending. Her boyfriend, Vince, has perished in the attack and Avery has developed agoraphobia. I mean, who wouldn't after all of that?
We forward nine years and she is still suffering from her trauma. Her father has recently died and left her a mansion, Whickering Place, and that is where our story takes us. To this beyond haunted abode that has claimed so many lives with demonry, vampiric bullshit, and assholes running around in cult masks.

This was a good book with an interesting premise and had so many great moments and fascinating characters. I'm not one for vampires, they do nothing for me but I did enjoy this. There is an enticing love triangle which I'm surprised I actually enjoyed and whispered under my breath rooting for one brother or the other. YES, the love triangle involved brothers. WEIRD BUT NECESSARY.

This book does flounder a bit around the halfway mark and I found myself getting bored and wondering where it was going. It could have been much much shorter in my opinion and some of the characters were parodies of themselves. The demons were...funny. Like, they tried so hard to be scary but...it was hilarious.

Overall, this is a fun book to read especially if you're a lover of vampires, hot brothers, and weird haunted houses.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book. All opinions are my own. Let's get sucked down by some hot vampires.

I didn't read the first book in the series The Meadows before reading this one but I still really enjoyed reading this book. It had the scary atmosphere that I look for in these books and had a great mystery too.

They say never judge a book by it's cover.. but I certainly did pick this book based on the cover. It reminded me of Netflix's 'The Haunting of Hill House'. I love books which have dark covers for some reason.
I really enjoyed this book. If you like supernatural, you'll like this book, it has it all, demons, vampires, love and death! I was hooked from the start, read it within two days. I haven't actually read the first book, so I will go back and read London Clarke's first book. I'm really looking forward to the 3rd book in this series, which I believe is coming out next year.

This really isn’t my sort of thing, mostly because of the modern day vampires, but the first book in this series was good. Really good. Surprisingly good. One of the best modern day vampire stories I’ve read, quite possibly. It had a lot going on and was very well written. Obviously, book two merited checking out. So I checked it out. Even though I don’t normally go for sequels or series. In fact, this isn’t a traditional either of those, it’s a book set in the same world and location (the infamous Whickering Place mansion), but it can easily be read as a standalone. There is still the dreaded vampire cult, The Colony, and this time they set their attention on Whickering Place’s latest owner, Avery, a traumatized agoraphobic young woman, who inherits the eerie dwelling from her estranged father. The agoraphobic angle was a nice touch, she is more or less forced to stay inside a place most would leave in a second, a place where disconnected phones rings and the walls whisper of murder. But Avery isn’t alone, she soon finds herself in a hot and messy love triangle with two hunky brothers who are conveniently enough tenants at the mansion. For me, it was this aspect of the novel that kinda brought it down a peg or two. I understand the need for such a dramatic amplification and it was rendered realistically (read less cheesy than traditionally allotted) enough, but it’s such a genre cliché, it just seemed unoriginal and slightly cheap. Not in general cheap, just for the level of writing Clarke proved herself able to deliver with book one. Mind you, this book is still well written and it reads very quickly, it’s enjoyable by all accounts, it just isn’t as notably good as its predecessor. It might be the sequel thing, they seldom maintain the freshness of the original. I still think the cult angle is lots of fun if one must talk of vampires, but overall this is a much simpler and less interesting story. And having that been said, I probably wouldn’t be averse to book 3 whenever that comes out, but without caring too much either way. Just to be clear, the intent of this review isn’t to discourage the readers from this book, it’s more to caution then to reduce expectations they might have from book 1. This was still plenty entertaining, just less complex of a plot and too heavy on the romance for my tastes. Thanks Netgalley.

The novel Whickering Place by London Clarke had just the right amount of creepy, horror and lust to appease my long dead and blackened heart. This finely spun narrative is a follow up to the Meadows and follows the young emotionally stunted Avery through her escapade into the macabre.
Following a bloody and brutal attack years earlier twenty-seven Avery is now a woman trapped and haunted by her own fears. An agoraphobic unable to let go of the fears of the multiple dangers lurking outside her window still gives her best attempts to win her battle against herself. In doing so she listens to her Dr.'s advice and attempts to start her life anew. With her father's suicide and her subsequent inheritance she comes to be the owner of Whickering Place. A historic mansion in Asheville North Carolina. A place currently housing the brothers Colin and Pearse Gallagher. Both young, handsome and intriguing male specimens , especially to Avery.
Paranormal events happen almost right away as a tale of the supernatural mixed with human depravity slowly emerge , and a story of mystery , violence, romance and the other side come to life.
One of my favorite aspects to this story are the chapters dedicated to the demons haunting the house and our characters. The cheese may stand alone on this point, as some people prefer not to be aware of how the bad guy thinks , or to have a tip as to what the bad guy may be planning. And while I agree not knowing the bad guys intention can add to the unexpected scares of a good scary story. But, when the writing is done well enough, such as it is here, it adds to the story. The inner workings of the demons added a sense of anxiety and foreboding as I read. Knowing something was coming , but not what it would be made the delivery that much more rewarding.
All in all, if you are a fan of the creepy, supernatural and romance this is a book you want to spend a rainy day with

I was very intrigued by the cover and description of this book as I love a good haunted house story, unfortunately this book wasn't for me.

I liked the romance side of things, the love triangle etc and I loved the creepy ringing phone that kept turning up throughout the book and the little scares that made me wish the lights were on. However, I did not like how the demons had a narrative voice. I prefer to have my evil be voiceless so I have to guess at their motives. It makes it feel more scary for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher, BooksGoSocial for an electronic advanced readers copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. As always all opinions are my own.

Stranger, captive, thrilling - one good book here, bookworms!

although I think I didn't enjoyed it fully because i had a feeling I should read the first one in the series too.

thank you NetGalley for this arc.

Whickering Place is a good paranormal book with vampires and suspense. The book is well written and is has interesting characters.

Felt like a change of genre from the maverick cops, bent cops (especially senior ones), child abuse, sex trafficking, drugs "detective thrillers" and "a page-turning supernatural thriller" sounded just right. Wrong. It's essentially blood-drinking members of The Colony terrorising an agoraphobic young woman trying to live in a house left her by her estranged father. Her two sitting tenants add a possible romance - the serious young doctor and his appealingly mysterious brother, The house has ghosts some of which go back to the times when it was built as a TB Sanatorium, but they are not benevolent ghosts - they are vampires of a sort too. Lots of slicing, dicing and bleeding, exsanguinated bodies bring in the local cops and then we have the solicitor dealing with the estate who is far too interested in buying up Whickering Place. Not badly written and characters well drawn on the whole. I guess dominance of vampires is just not my thing. Thanks to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review.

I believe I should have read more about the premise of this book before beginning to read it. I was hoping for a romantic/love ghost story taking place in a beautiful historic home but that is not what this book is. If you are hoping to read the same don't bother-I gave up after about 20% of the book. If you are looking for horror/ vampires/ fantasy in a surreal setting you can read this book. I found the book to be silly and ridiculous.

Received this book as an ARC, first time I have read this author. Avery moves into her dead fathers house and strange things start happening. This book has it all vampires, demons, love, death!! Read this book in a couple of hours, it was so good. This is the second book, it was so good that I have went and bought the first one.. I can’t wait til 2020 when the next one gets here. Loved every part of this book.