it has great writing, interesting characters and a very original plot. Eventually though, they both reach a point where they don’t know who they can trust, how to escape their situation financially unscathed and how to get the hell out of their perfect gated community on the hill. Being a writer can lead to having a big imagination, and his wife seems happy.at first. But his books are fiction - surely things aren’t as strange as they seem? Maybe he’s just being paranoid. Weird about that cat, though! They become friends with the couple and several others, but they’ve also begun a new homeowner’s nightmare: A fight with the strict and seemingly never-ending list of infractions.īarry is a horror writer, and as time goes on, he starts feeling like he’s living in one of his books. We don’t know anything about your kitty!īarry and Maureen meet some neighbors, Ray and Liz, who assure them that the HOA’s requirement that all landscaping changes are to be approved by the board is part of a standard community system. They realize they were never given the Bonita Vista “CCR” manual for covenants and rules, but the HOA soon remedied that and let them off with a warning.
Shortly after moving in, the new landscaping they’d put in was ripped out overnight, and a stray cat they’d started feeding was found dead. They gave in and without realizing it, signed away their freedom, their privacy and their lives. They weren’t thrilled that the house was in a gated community with a homeowner’s association, but their realtor assured them it was just for safety and maintenance, and dues were only a couple hundred bucks a year. They found a house that needed some TLC, but it had spectacular views and they were able to get a great deal on it. but hopefully only to a point.īarry and Maureen (haha) were tired of California city living and decided to move to the small town of Corban, Utah. (I don’t have shrubs behind my fence.) This book did not disappoint, and if you’ve lived in a strict community, you’ll commiserate. Literally on my last day of reading this, I got a notice on my door from my HOA to trim the shrubs behind my fence.
Having lived in a few HOAs over the years, all of them varying in degrees of insanity, I saw the synopsis for this book and knew I wanted to read it.
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