Slade House

Tentatively on hold at about page 57.

This book is kinda urban fantasy/horror and while it has some interesting ideas, I'm not really in the mood for that genre. Modern, gritty, urban London is not really the kind of setting I gravitate towards in books. The structure of the book is also such that you see how Slade House basically kidnaps and swallows up people every 9 years, and while I can get why it's that way, it also means that you don't have a consistent narrative - it's almost like a bunch of short stories centering around the titular house. At where I'm reading, we already kind of see how 13 year old Nathan Bishop got kidnapped and had his soul?? eaten?? or something by the creepy siblings who run the house. I don't know if there's probably more to it than that (there most likely is), but at this point I feel like I already know the mystery of the house and have no burning questions to answer about it to drive me on to the end of this really short book.