London, Serpent’s Tail, 2020 I chose this book for a challenge that was about reading a book a friend didn’t like or doesn’t recommend. And when I opened Goodreads, I noticed that a friend had given this book a 2 out of 5 rating, which probably means she wasn’t a fan. I was also recommended (or should I say not recommended) a bunch of other books for said challenge but for whatever reason this one caught my attention. Then I remembered I had seen it years back on Goodreads and thought it worth reading even back then, yet somehow it got lost in the middle of all those 500+ books that are on my to read list. In the Dream House is a book about domestic violence in a form that you don’t see often, or at all. The author writes about her own toxic and violent past relationship with another woman, while also educating the reader about other domestic violence cases in the LGBT+ community. Some of which have, unfortunately, ended with the death of the victim. Just putting it out there that Mac