Dream House by Marzia Bisognin

Dream House by Marzia Bisognin: A Book Review
Dream House is Marzia’s debut novel, to be honest I picked it up and finished I all through for
the author because I am a big fan of her content on YouTube and instagram. I love her creativity and
naturally I was interested to a new form of content that she was making which is in literature. It follows
the days of Amethyst stuck in her dream house which also happens to be haunted, as she uncovers
mystery after mystery about the house and the people who live there; she also discovered something
about herself. A lot of times during the book I was just confused, even after reading the book I am sat
with a frown of confusion on my face, trying to make sense of the last 200 or so pages that I have read.
There were handful of loop holes that I can count and questions that were left unanswered. In the book,
a lot of the scenes and our main character’s actions don’t make sense; although I have a feeling that the
author meant for it to be like that, because even our character can’t make any sense out of the situation
that she was in. I think Marzia was intentionally making the story confusing and detaching, as if in a
dream; supplemented with the dream-like elements of losing track of time or there is no actual sense of
time in the book, and when the setting change on an instant, much like in dreams. It was to be honest a
brilliant idea for a story however, I think the idea was poorly executed that it just left the reader really
confused and it gave the impression that the story was poorly constructed. The entire book felt like that
weird dream that you wake up from, but instead of having the magical tingling feeling of waking up from
a dream, you just wake up confused for having to dream those dreams.
This book is plot-driven, but there wasn’t much plot to begin with. This book looks like one big
concept or theory about life and death that the author was trying to depict through a 30-day story of a
girl. The author left clues and hints all throughout the book which was expected to be wrapped up in the
end, most of them were but there were still some that were left hanging, and a lot were left unclear. For
example, who was the woman who kept on coming to the house making her leave? What would have
happened if she did leave? Who was the man sitting on the couch also telling her to leave who only ever
appeared once? Did a year pass that she died on her eighteenth birthday, and she had celebrated her
nineteenth birthday again with and it was the day she was reunited with the Blooms? (I got this idea
because Avery said Akiko was supposed to be nineteen on that year but she died on her eighteenth
birthday, and then Avery and Amethyst celebrated Akiko’s birthday in the tunnel which was dated
October 21) And many more, honestly my mind were just left spiraling after reading the book. There was
an epiphany moment for our main character where everything was already supposed to make sense and
we get answers, but I still had a hard time following the thought of our main character, and so little still
make sense. Also because I don’t feel any connection or attachment to the character, I can’t bring
myself to feel good on the upside that was happening in her life—or death—after everything she’s been
through because the reader was left behind the wagon in her moment of clarity. It all even happened so
fast, so the reader lack the time to process everything that has happened and was happening, it was
unsatisfying and not very rewarding. On to the characters, they don’t feel very real. Since the novel is
very concept-driven, the characters felt like puppets being moved around by a hand in order to form the
story and unravel the author’s idea. I really liked the concept of this story, I honestly do, and despite my
confusing experience in reading this book, it was enough to make me want to know what was actually
happening in the story, because after all I was already there, why not go through it all. The narrative was
very perceptive however some of language used was also very mouthful, it wasn’t much of an issue but
it is definitely noticeable, I ended up skimming on some of the parts. There were sentences that I had to
read over and over again trying to understand it, or even had to reread an entire paragraph to
understand what was happening in that one sentence. The author also used a lot vague adjective or
sometimes the lack of it, and it makes it hard for the reader to imagine and be in the scenario, which
again affects the experience in reading the book and be totally engrossed in it. Despite this, the narrative
still ended up so long just to portray a single scene, although sometimes it worked well because it gives
the reader an eerie feeling of everything happening so slow, and it makes you read as fast as you can at
the edge of your seat to know what’s happening next, but it all mostly end to her sleeping or passing
which is very anti-climactic and it happened so many times.
I take it this is Marzia Bisognin’s debut novel, I believe she has a lot more stories up in her
brilliant creative mind, and there is also a lot of space for improvement if ever she publishes another
novel.
EDIT: After reading through the goodread question section under this book, the man with the
key was a psychic that the Blooms hired to get in contact with Amethyst, and that was in no way I could
have guessed, if only based from reading the book. I take it the woman who kept on coming back at the
house telling her to leave was another psychic. While I was able to understand that the scene in the
basement with the candles and circles was the Bloom trying to make contact with her, and the book
Spiritual Relief that Marvin was reading was for her and not Alfred, I really didn’t get anything hinting
that two people coming and going into the house was a psychic.

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