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The House on Linden Way Paperback – July 20, 2022

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While passing through her hometown a decade after she left, Amber Blake impulsively revisits her old house on Linden Way. She only means to stay a moment, to show her three-year-old daughter Bee the place where she grew up. But when the kindly new owners invite them inside, Amber cannot resist.

Soon Bee is missing, the owners have disappeared, and Amber finds herself in a houseful of ghosts. Time takes on new meaning as she loses herself in living memories and a past that does not wish to be forgotten.

As Amber fights the powerful lure of a childhood she’d long left behind, her tenuous hold on the real world slips further from her grasp. Is it merely nostalgia she’s battling, or something far more menacing? Who haunts the house on Linden Way, and where are they hiding her child?
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    230 pages
  2. Language
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    July 20, 2022
  4. Dimensions
    5 x 0.58 x 8 inches
  5. ISBN-13
    979-8809149051
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B6XX8MYG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (July 20, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 230 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8809149051
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.58 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

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Elizabeth Maria Naranjo

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Elizabeth Maria Naranjo is the award-winning author of The Fourth Wall (Wido Publishing, 2014) and The House on Linden Way (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2022). Her short fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in Brevity Magazine, Superstition Review, Fractured Lit, Reservoir Road, Hunger Mountain, Literary Mama, Hospital Drive, The Portland Review, Motherwell, and a few other places.

Elizabeth's work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Essays, and Best of the Net, and her short story "Windows" was selected for Best Microfiction 2023. She lives in Tempe, Arizona, with her husband and two children.

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Michelle Buck
4.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2024
This is an amazing book. To me there were several twists and turns that kept me interested and kept me reading, and not wanting to put the book down. The ending was not exactly what I had expected. I highly recommend this book.
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clahain
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and Terrifying
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2022
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It's nightmarish enough to realize your three-year-old has vanished, but what happens when you start forgetting she even exists?

If you want an idea of how captivating Amber's story is, consider this: I'd just pulled the book out of the shipping envelope and set it on my dining room table when a house guest casually picked it up and began reading. She sat down at the table and did not get up until she finished the whole thing. Then it was my turn and, like my guest, I was enthralled from page one.

Amber Blake believes she's gotten over her difficult childhood, but her childhood has never gotten over her. There are debts to be paid and The House on Linden Way is determined to collect. As the tale unfolds, the house seems to float independently of the laws of time and space, cause and effect. Past and present slip, slide, grind against one another. Memory is what matters in the House on Linden Way. Memory is Amber's nemesis. It pulls her away from the present, away from her missing daughter. But Memory is also Amber's saving grace. Bee becomes a specter that haunts Amber's buried past, never allowing her to get fully, fatally lost. It's so so weird. But the author is great about keeping the reader grounded in Amber's point of view and adding just enough humor and warmth at just the right moment to keep the dark atmosphere from overwhelming you.

The House on Linden Way is a fabulously surreal reading experience. Highly recommended!
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SueBE
4.0 out of 5 stars Read this book to learn how to unsettle your reader
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2022
If you want to know how to create a book that unsettles and unnerves the reader, pick up The House on Linden Way by Elizabeth Maria Naranjo. I’ll admit – when I volunteered for this blog tour, I was uncertain about the wisdom of my choice. I am not a huge horror fan and while this book didn’t seem to be guts and gore, it has that old school, horror vibe. It is all about creating a spooky, unsettling atmosphere and so often authors who strive to do this resort to gore.

I’m not going to say the book is blood free but what was there was essential and not extreme. This wasn’t about grossing out the reader.

Amber and her three-year-old daughter Bee are traveling cross country. Because they are in the area where Amber grew up, she decides to swing by the house so Bee can see it. Now, honestly? I’m not buying what she’s selling. This visit was for Amber’s benefit although she used her daughter as her excuse. Parents do this kind of thing all the time. I have a stack of art supplies and a disinterested son to prove that point.

Anyway, Amber knocks on the door to talk to the current owners who are an incredibly kind older couple. They welcome her and Bee in so that Amber can see the whom and prepare a snack for the pair. While the snack is in the works, Bee disappears.

I’m not going to discuss much more of the actual plot than that because the reader needs to experience the plot as it unfolds in the book. If I reveal too much, it will tamper with that experience.

Naranjo uses multiple elements to create an unsettling, unnerving story.

The disappearance of Bee. Anyone who has ever had a child slip away unnoticed is going to know how gut wrenching this experience is. To have it go one for days? That takes it to a whole new level.
Bee doesn’t just disappear. Amber is stuck in her own memories and initially has no idea how to release herself.
Amber has memories that she has banished. This is a great way to create an unreliable narrator. Because she won’t let herself think about them, they are not immediately in her mind even when she returns to her own past. This makes her surprise when things are revealed believable while also making the whole experience eerily unsettling.
The story is linear in that we experience things in the order that Amber experiences them in the present. She arrives at the house. She loses Bee. She experiences a jumble of memories. But those memories are not in chronological order. It is like someone shuffled the scene cards and it is an unsettling experience.
These are the elements that Naranjo employs instead of the blood and guts of your typical horror novel. Instead she presents the reader with an atmospheric, creepy experience that makes them question everything.

This is definitely a read I would recommend.

–SueBE
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JDS
3.0 out of 5 stars They say you can never go home again…
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2022
This book is about something a lot of people think about doing. If you could revisit your childhood home would you? Amber decides to stop by her childhood home and show her daughter where she grew up when she was a little girl. This trip down memory lane turns into a lot more than she thought it would be. Not only does she remember when she was a child she becomes a child again. Find out what happens next
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Nicole P
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible book!
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2022
As much as this hinted at being a ghost story, it struck me more as being a walk through someone’s past. When Amber loses her daughter in the house where she grew up, she is held in place by her own memories, the loss of her brother, and guilt she’s never been able to release. What becomes just as important as finding her daughter is learning how to let go of the past that brought her to the house at all. Otherwise, she’d never be free from it.

Amber is a rich, complex character who runs into all sides of herself, including her own destructive side, throughout her journey in her own mind. I loved the pushes and pulls of memories that feel so achingly real to her but impossible to change.

It is an absolutely exciting book that kept me captivated the entire time. A great read for an October night!
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Chelsie S.
4.0 out of 5 stars Careful what you wish for! Fun October read!
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2022
You ever feel like you lost track of time, and have no idea what happened or where you were? Maybe you feel asleep for a few minutes, spaced off into a day dream, or something unexplainable… This is exactly that novel, a good creepy read for October!

Amber is passing through her hometown, and as nostalgic as we all get at times, she decides to stop at the house she grew up in to show her daughter. Just a quick photo or two in front of the house and they will be on their way. Something at work, has decided a differently for Amber and before she knows it, they are invited into the house and it is like déjà vu or is it? Her past, her brother and now her daughter are all pieces in this labyrinth that Amber has to figure out how to get out of. This is definitely a careful what you wish for novel and great creepy read for this month.

Thank you to WOW! Women on Writing for the invite and the author for sending me a free novel. I enjoyed that this was a quick, short read and kept your attention from the very first page.
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