I was so tremendously excited for this book, but unfortunately, after a few weeks of trying to slog through and making very little progress, I'm going to do us both a favor and call it quits. I adore home invasion stories because they're one of the very few horror themes that genuinely chill me to my core, and the idea behind this book was an incredibly unique take on that trope; however, that unfortunately meant that it wasn't what I hoped it would be and I couldn't connect.

Anybody Home? is written in second-person perspective and is essentially a "guide" of a mentor teaching a mentee how to pull off the best possible home invasion ordeal. I thought the idea was really interesting, but it led to a surprising amount of repetition in the text and made it impossible for me to care about any of the characters, which by proxy made it impossible for me to feel scared or truly unsettled by the events therein. Maybe if I had finished the book, I would have felt differently, but I skimmed ahead to several later sections to see if anything piqued my interest, and it was more of the same.

Judging by most of the other ARC reviews I'm seeing for this book, I definitely feel like the odd one out in disliking Anybody Home?, so I think anyone who is interested should absolutely pick up a copy and give it a chance! That said, it didn't work for me and I'm quite disappointed to say so.

Thank you to the publisher for the review copy! All thoughts are honest and my own.