Review: Delightfully Creepy and Original
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2014
What a great surprise this book was - if The Shining and Hoarders got together and produced a book, it would be Fortress of Ephemera.  Miles is a WWI vet and practicing attorney whose life is changed after Noah Langley, a wealthy elderly eccentric, asks for his help.  Turns out Noah is a hoarder, living in a crumbling, trash-filled mansion in Harlem with his bedridden sister, although he's worth millions. Soon Miles becomes trapped inside the house of horrors with Noah, a social worker, and a band of vicious thieves who believe there's gold hidden in the massive mansion.  But strange things start happening in the dark, and sanity is fragile in a house of tunnels through mountains of trash and a mysterious killer on the hunt. The ending was a surprise but perfectly fitting - I loved this book!