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Reviewed by Lit Amri for Readers' Favorite
Ben Carson’s recurring nightmare about a frightening winged creature tires him deeply. He also has to deal with his pregnant wife’s puzzling condition. Anne has been in a coma for two weeks at Lutheran Hospital, slipping into a deeper unconscious state each day. Anne is a psychologist who specializes in dream therapy and, without Ben’s knowledge, decided to help her patients through their dreams when she went to sleep one night. However, she encountered something that made her lose control, trapping her in a deep sleep. All her methods of dream control are ineffective, as she is not trapped in a dream but someplace sinister.
The narration of The Well House is written interchangeably between the present time and the past, specifically the back story of the characters. For several chapters, I did feel that this hampers the flow of the reading at some point, but author M.S. Matassa still managed to keep the story moving at a fairly fast speed. There are some tangential details that I think could be easily left out, but these don't affect the readability of the book. This novel has a religious tone, nevertheless the battle between good and evil is a universal theme that hardly makes The Well House appear overwhelmingly preachy to me. Despite its minor imperfections, The Well House is still a taut, well-crafted chilling story by Matassa. The majority of the book is merciless and unforgiving in terms of psychological fear – it may make some readers want to have a couple of dreamless nights afterward.
