The Kept & the Keeper: House & Hemlock

by A.P. Boland

In his mid-20s, Henry Strauss is content to spend his days coasting through life and avoiding responsibility at all costs, until the universe reveals that it has other plans for him. After receiving a phone call informing him of the death of a grandfather he hasn't seen in years, memories of a childhood spent at an old family estate, known as The Kept, come flooding back to him.

For more than 300 years, The Kept has been owned by a member of the Keeper family but Henry isn't a Keeper, he’s a Strauss. Upon his arrival, a dispute between two rival gnome kingdoms threatens to destroy his new home. With his feet held to the fire he must quickly solve the mysteries of the house in order to stop the second great gnome war, which has already spread into the nearby town of Presage Heights.

324 pages, Paperback

First published October 6, 2015

Reviews

[Jack Fernard · Rating 4 out of 5]

House & Hemlock is a fun story that has an old-school fantasy feel to it, despite the modern setting. The novel is full of rich characters and the pace is excellent. Timeline and POV threw me a couple of times, but I felt engaged as a reader on every page. From Cadillac driving demons to pig riding gnomes, there was ample material for ones imagination. The first half of the book flew by!

I would recommend this book.

[Charlene · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good story weak ending.

The story is pretty good but like I said, the ending is weak. I think the author was either eager to end the story or was wanting to write a second book.