"We'll always be here together, won't we, Constance?"
"Don't you ever want to leave here, Merricat?"
"Where could we go?" I asked her. "What place would be better for us than this? Who wants us, outside? The world is full of terrible people." 

Merricat Blackwood lives with her sister Constance and her uncle Julian on their family's secluded estate. Constance has been accused of supposedly murdering members of the family, and the town has shunned them. One day, their cousin arrives at the estate and starts causing problems. 

I'm going to be honest and tell you that nothing really happened, yet I enjoyed the writing and the characters. I really liked Merricat for her bizarre personality. Constance was boring, yet sweet, and their uncle Julian was quirky and determined with his ranting and raving. The relationship between the sisters was cute as the story followed their day to day lives at the estate. 

Constance suffered from agoraphobia and their uncle was wheelchair bound, so Merricat ran all the errands and risked facing verbal abuse from the people in town. With each passing day, more information was revealed about what kind of family the Blackwoods were and what happened on that fateful day when their parents, brother, and Julian's wife died. The reader then begins to understand why everyone in town either hated or feared them. 

This was an atmospheric, dark story full of mystery.