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Very interesting and enjoyed the Mrs. Lincoln connection. The book was a little slow towards the middle, but had a good ending.


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House of Silence Sarah Barthel 9781496706089 Books Reviews

Isabelle Larkin has always done everything that society and her mother expect of her including accepting an engagement from Gregory Gallagher. After the engagement however Isabelle catches Gregory talking to a servant girl who claims to know him from his hometown. Gregory denies knowing the girl but when Isabelle again sees them together she can't help but want to know what is going on but as she watches the interaction she is in for the shock of her life when Gregory strangles the girl.

After witnessing such a horrible incident Isabelle tries to warn her mother of Gregory's true nature but due to Isabelle's condition after hiding the doctor and her mother believe she's imagining what she witnessed. With her mother still insisting that Isabelle carry on with her planned marriage Isabelle begins to play up her trauma and refuses to speak trying to get herself committed to Bellevue Sanitarium to gain protection from her murderous fiancee.

House of Silence is a historical thriller set in set in Oak Park, Illinois in the year 1875. While the events taking place with the main character Isabelle are fictional the book is also based upon some truth. Bellevue Sanitarium was a real facility in Oak Park in 1875 that was a home for troubled upper class women. Mary Lincoln was admitted to the facility after a trial with her son in which he had her committed. These events being mixed into a fictional tale made the book just that much more interesting while reading the story.

The story within the pages of House of Silence is one that really shows what life would be like for a young woman in the late 1800's. Women were expected to look and behave a certain way and had very little rights of their own so Isabelle being controlled by her mother and what is expected of her is true to the times. Even after witnessing such a horrific event she can't find anyone to believe such a thing of her upstanding fiancee so goes to extremes to escape which was certainly intriguing to see if she would ever be safe.

Overall, wonderful historical fiction that also has a bit of real people an situations mixed into the story to set the time and place for the book.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.
House of Silence by Sarah Barthel
Source Netgalley
My Rating 4/5 stars
My Review

In 1875, it just wasn’t proper for a woman to have an opinion of her own, let alone, voice that opinion. When Isabella Larkin not only voices an opinion, but voices one that disparages her fiancée, well, things go so very, very wrong. In fact, things go so wrong, Isabelle finds herself in desperate need of protection and the only place she can find that protection is in a sanitarium as a voluntarily committed patient.

When Isabelle checks into the sanitarium, she does so as a self-imposed mute. Until she can prove the truth of her words, Isabelle intends to keep her silence and from the safety of the sanitarium, she can bide her time and form a plan. Trouble is, a woman going about on her own in the late 19th century just wasn’t proper so proving her story isn’t going to be easy. In fact, in order to help herself, Isabelle is going to have to trust someone and that hasn’t gotten her anything but trouble in recent history. She trusted bother her fiancé and her mother and those two took betrayal to an epic new level.

Life in the sanitarium isn’t at all what Isabelle expected. The woman range from the truly mentally ill to the in-desperate-need-of-rest, and all contribute to the community in some way. From gardening to sewing, the women are generally occupied during the times they are not with one of the doctors. For Isabelle, the safety of the sanitarium and the hours of manual labor allow her time to ponder her situation and suss out a way to prove her story.

As it happens, Isabelle isn’t quite as safe as she originally thought, and when her fiancé’s lackeys start sniffing around the sanitarium, Isabelle’s contentions about her fiancé are confirmed. With the few clues the lackeys left behind, Isabelle begins to put the pieces together regarding her fiancé and his shady past. But, Isabelle doesn’t work alone, and those she enlists to help her are of the most surprising element.

The path to proving her story isn’t an easy one as Isabelle is incredibly vulnerable when she goes outside the confines of the sanitarium. Her companions (she must have them!) are the only two people in the world she truly trusts, and both frequently try and talk her out of her course of action. But, Isabelle is determined, and even when her life is threatened, she persists. Her fiancé proves to be as dangerous as she already knew him to be and by the time all is said and done, Isabelle damn-near loses her life. What she gains, however, is far more precious and worth every chance Isabelle takes.

The Bottom Line I have long been a fan of historical fiction, and House of Silence certainly fits the bill. The historical aspects of this read can be found in both the sanitarium and the secondary character of the widowed Mrs. Lincoln. With there being only very limited information surrounding these two elements, the fictitious story of Isabelle Larkin was concocted as a means by which to tell Mrs. Lincoln’s story. The most fascinating parts of House of Silence revolved, not around Mrs. Lincoln, but around life in the sanitarium and the lengths a woman had to go to in the late 19th century to not only ne heard, but believed. I can’t imagine Isabelle’s story was an isolated event (though perhaps not all as extreme!) and her struggle for vindication must have been one fought by many women of the period. For me, Mrs. Lincoln was nothing more than a means by which to further Isabelle’s story rather than the other way around. The mystery surrounding Isabelle’s fiancé isn’t all that deep or dangerous, but it is just right for this read. While the overall tone of the book is somewhat dark and subdued, there is an HEA sure to satisfy most readers.
Silly book. I can't figure out why the author wrote it.
Timing and the storyline ver interested. Not my typical ready but I loved it. Light and easy but keeps your interest
This was a book that kept my interest for beginning to end. The author painted a great picture for me to be able to truly imagine the homes, characters, gardens etc... fun and mysterious
Good plot line but might be a bit unbelievable towards the end.
pulls you in. Hard to stop reading once you start. I didn't think I would like the book but I ended up loving it. It shows what it means to not have a voice but to fight to be heard.
Very interesting and enjoyed the Mrs. Lincoln connection. The book was a little slow towards the middle, but had a good ending.