The House No One Sees, Adina King
The House No One Sees, Adina King
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The House No One Sees

Author: Adina King

Narrator: Chloe Cannon

Unabridged: 3 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/18/2025


Synopsis

Penelope Ross has always felt like a passenger in her mother's fairytale—until the night of her seventeenth birthday, when she is forced to enter her own.

After a text from her estranged mother rips her away from a night with friends, Penny is forced into a kaleidoscope of memories locked inside the dark labyrinth of her childhood home. As Penny wanders between present and past—prose and verse—she must confront her mother's opioid addiction to mend her fractured past. But the house is tricky. The house is impossible. It wants her to dig up the dead to escape. And as Penny walks through herself to find herself, she is not sure she has the courage to free the light she trapped inside.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Valerie on March 12, 2025

"all the things that could make flowers bloom and weeds stand out" I so badly need a win this year haha I really liked some of the metaphors this one tried to get across especially how the majority of this is through the lens of a child trying to make the best of her situation, but a lot of them were......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on April 25, 2025

Holy heaviness, beautiful and haunting. Penny is spending her birthday at a fair with her friends when she receives texts from her mom saying that she misses her. Penny races to her childhood home to check on her mom, and instead ends up confronting her own past as she navigates through the house and......more

Goodreads review by Kate on January 13, 2025

I read this ARC via Netgalley. There is a house that no one sees, no one except Penelope. After receiving a series of texts from her mother while out with friends, Penelope sneaks off to enter the house, opening the door to years of memories she's tried to bury. The verse form of this novel helped kee......more

Goodreads review by Stormi on March 13, 2025

The House No One Sees By: Adina King 4 Stars This story was a web of past and present. Memories mixed with joy and pain. Penelope tells her story with a mix of fairy tales and reality. Having an opioid addicted mother. Being taken away. Pain from bullying. Yet, with all the negative bits of her life, s......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on December 06, 2024

Thank you Netgalley and MacMillan Children’s for the ARC in exchange for an honest review! Adina King’s “The House No One Sees” is an evocative and poetic exploration of trauma, healing, and the labyrinthine nature of memory. Told through a masterful blend of prose and free verse, this book draws you......more