The No-End House
In the of tradition Stephen King, Alma Katsu, and Christopher Golden's evil supernatural twists, two strangers unwittingly volunteer for the ultimate haunted house challenge in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter.
Nine rooms. Nine tests. One chance to get out alive. No one makes it to the end of The No-End House.
It’s the ultimate haunted house challenge. A crumbling stone mansion nestled in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, it may be the best-kept secret in Europe—a little-known attraction featuring nine escape rooms to explore, nine puzzles to solve, and a large cash prize for anyone who makes it to the end. There’s just one catch: no one makes it to the end of The No-End House. . . .
When Joe Hadfield hears about the house from a pair of backpackers, he’s intrigued but not interested. He’s trying to escape a nightmare of his own: the trauma of witnessing his wife’s grisly death. Traveling the world to ease his pain and grief, he meets a beautiful stranger named Helen who convinces him to try The No-End House challenge together. Joe reluctantly agrees. But as soon as they enter its walls, meet its mysterious host—and sign an ominous contract—Joe begins to understand the seductive power of The No-End House . . .
It knows his darkest secrets. It feeds his greatest fears. It makes him do things he would never do. And there is no end to what he will do . . . to make it out alive.
Nine rooms. Nine tests. One chance to get out alive. No one makes it to the end of The No-End House.
It’s the ultimate haunted house challenge. A crumbling stone mansion nestled in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, it may be the best-kept secret in Europe—a little-known attraction featuring nine escape rooms to explore, nine puzzles to solve, and a large cash prize for anyone who makes it to the end. There’s just one catch: no one makes it to the end of The No-End House. . . .
When Joe Hadfield hears about the house from a pair of backpackers, he’s intrigued but not interested. He’s trying to escape a nightmare of his own: the trauma of witnessing his wife’s grisly death. Traveling the world to ease his pain and grief, he meets a beautiful stranger named Helen who convinces him to try The No-End House challenge together. Joe reluctantly agrees. But as soon as they enter its walls, meet its mysterious host—and sign an ominous contract—Joe begins to understand the seductive power of The No-End House . . .
It knows his darkest secrets. It feeds his greatest fears. It makes him do things he would never do. And there is no end to what he will do . . . to make it out alive.
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This is my second read by Jeremy Bates and much like the other novel I read, this was not a great time.
Joe and Helen meet at a bar and decide to look for the “No end House” which they find and agree to complete on a whim despite knowing nothing about it and being given a weird contract which they sign almost immediately in a strange country they’re both new to. Soon they discover this is not a normal escape room, and instead their lives and souls are at risk.
I will admit I enjoyed this at first, the premise is interesting, the unknown is exciting, and while the characters were not great, they were passable.
My enjoyment immediately died once they reached the house and again we have a misogynistic white knight male lead that steps up to protect the female. Joe, apparently is a strong man, a good guy, and able to wield every weapon known to man at the drop of a hat.
His female companion Helen is hot and reckless, a real pixie dream girl sent to heal Joe of the grief from his wife’s death (who he blames for dying). These two are cardboard cut outs of real people and supposedly are madly in love after one night at a bar talking, and willing to sign weird contracts and complete unknown challenges together.
Nothing in this book makes any sense. Everything is ridiculous, over the top, and mildly offensive and not in any good way. Every villain in this house is a rip off from some other horror franchise and Bates even admits that by having Joe and Helen discover the house is using their minds and traumas to make the rooms! So that’s why Jason Voorhees is here ok, and dinosaurs, and the fat merchant from Resident Evil Village, and Elvira.
Overall this was poorly written, unoriginal, dull, and filled with underlying currents of misogyny. Usually I can always find some enjoyment out of haunted house type books but this was just terrible.
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