I don't think so...
A curious little haunted house story about a husband and wife that move into a new house and strange things begin to happen. If this book was a horror film it would be one of those new, contemporary horror films that has absolutely no musical composition to it whatsoever. Just the dry straight facts. Let me tell you why... This book is written in a first-person style jumping back and forth between the husband and wife's POV and is also written in present tense. You can imagine how monotonous it is to read texts written in such a manner. Another problem I had with the way this book is written is that the chapters are so terribly short (there is literally 92 chapters in a book of only 273 pages) and each chapter alternates between the husband and wife so that just as you are getting into one story it pulls you back out and throws you into a different story from a different point of view. It's very difficult to emerge yourself into the story when it is written this way. The premise and the story of the book were just fine. The ending sucked if I do say so myself. The rest of the issues that I had with the book go into personal issues that I have with the characters being flawed. Like why the hell would they buy a house with water stains and weird secret passages? Why the hell would they stay in a house that is making the wife sick and the husband crazy? They did not decide to leave the house until way too far in the book. I understand finances and all that but when something like this starts to happen you have to wonder. And as I stated before the ending sucked more because it made me absolutely hate the two characters. With everything stated above I don't think I'm going to be recommending this book. I just have too many issues with it.
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Janet Pennington
8/2/2019 08:29:54 am
Honest review! I'm getting a bit fed up of the alternate POV now. Once it seemed refreshing but now I find it confusing. I like your originality and fearless approach.
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