Not to mention the time span used dating back to the early nineteenth century. The delivery was hard to follow with the introduction of so many characters. Each character purged the secrets that weighed them down hoping to be forgiven. These characters were searching for purpose away from the loneliness and pain of life’s circumstances. Oftentimes, memories and stories were shared between them hinting at the secrets they held. Instead, They observed the Walker family and whispered words between themselves.

These ghosts didn’t haunt the house the way I thought they would. While I couldn’t figure out the purpose of this book it became clear at the end. There was a book called The Raven Heliotrope, that was referenced in The Rooms. Rooms was sectioned into parts where the parts were about each room in the house. These secrets were locked within this house waiting to be released. The living and the dead connected by a house full of rooms that held secrets. The timeline spanned from the early nineteenth century in this town of Coral River. This was a character driven story with many character introductions. With alternating points of view and individual perspectives we learn about these characters through the eyes of the living and the dead. Alice and Sandra were former residents and are the ghosts in this house. In Rooms, a novel about ghosts whom occupy the country house the Walkers used to occupy. When a new ghost appears, and Trenton begins to communicate with her, the spirit and human worlds collide-with cataclysmic results.Elegantly constructed and brilliantly paced, Rooms is an enticing and imaginative ghost story and a searing family drama that is as haunting as it is resonant. Though their voices cannot be heard, Alice and Sandra speak through the house itself-in the hiss of the radiator, a creak in the stairs, the dimming of a light bulb.The living and dead are each haunted by painful truths that will soon surface with explosive force. Jostling for space, memory, and supremacy, they observe the family, trading barbs and reminiscences about their past lives. Prim Alice and the cynical Sandra, long dead former residents bound to the house, linger within its claustrophobic walls.

His estranged family-bitter ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and unforgiving daughter Minna-have arrived for their inheritance.But the Walkers are not alone.

The New York Times bestselling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy makes her brilliant adult debut with this mesmerizing story in the tradition of The Lovely Bones, Her Fearful Symmetry, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane-a tale of family, ghosts, secrets, and mystery, in which the lives of the living and the dead intersect in shocking, surprising, and moving ways.Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime.

Rooms by lauren oliver