From the get go, Maya had no interest in him, barely noticing his existence. We get to see the present Maya, who is taking us right along with her while she sleuths what really happened to her best friend, along with past Maya, giving us background information into the type of friendship she’d had with Aubrey. I’m not always a fan of flashback chapters, but I felt it really worked here. It seemed to be a trigger for her, opening up old wounds, reminding her of what she’d witnessed several years prior when her friend Aubrey had died.

Like nearly everyone else in her life, I didn’t know the depth or extent of what she has gone through, and it’s obvious she holds onto self-medication because it’s a way to escape. Will Aubrey’s cause of death have some sort of supernatural foundation? Can the same be said for the young woman Maya sees in the YouTube video? How is Frank tied to it all? The truth was so shocking, I didn’t even see it coming!Īt first, I wasn’t sure what sort of past Maya had that would feed into her secret addiction. When I say The House in the Pines kept me guessing, that’s an understatement. Utterly unique and captivating, The House in the Pines keeps you guessing about whether we can ever fully confront the past and return home. To save herself, she must understand a story written before she was born, but time keeps running out, and soon, all roads are leading back to Frank's cabin. Plunged into the trauma that has defined her life, Maya heads to her Berkshires hometown to relive that fateful summer-the influence Frank once had on her and the obsessive jealousy that nearly destroyed her friendship with Aubrey.Īt her mother's house, she excavates fragments of her past and notices hidden messages in her deceased Guatemalan father's book that didn't stand out to her earlier. But her past comes rushing back when she comes across a recent YouTube video in which a young woman suddenly keels over and dies in a diner while sitting across from none other than Frank. Seven years later, Maya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that has allowed her to cope with what happened years ago, the gaps in her memories, and the lost time that she can't account for. Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they'd been spending time with all summer. What she uncovers, deep in the woods, is hardly to be believed. Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend's sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent her life trying to forget, sets out to track down answers.

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